This is perfect. select extract(epoch from '1 day 1 hour 15 minute'::interval)/3600 || 'hours'; ?column? ------------ 25.25hours (1 row)
I must have looked at this for hours and not seen the 'interval' part of the epoch... Thanks, Ted --- Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 13:08:04 -0700, > Theodore Petrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how do I get an interval '1 day 1 hour' to display > as > > '25 hours'. I am hunting in the docs (and > googling) > > and either I am blind or I need a special > function? > > > > Is there an easy way? > > EXTRACT epoch from the interval and divide by 3600 > and concatenate to ' hours'. > > area=> select extract(epoch from '1 day 1 > hour'::interval)/3600 || ' hours'; > ?column? > ---------- > 25 hours > (1 row) > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
