Re: to_char(interval) --- done?

--On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 08:50:36 -0800 Josh Berkus
<josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> Larry,
>
>> I had a need that should(!) be in the archives. Just to reiterate my
>> need:
>>
>> I input a contract length, in months, and wanted to get it back out as
>> months. There is no current way to do this, so I store it as an INT and
>> concatenate the word months to do the
>> date arithmetic.
>
> What about EXTRACT(months FROM <interval_field>)?
>
> This annoyingly wraps around if it's more than 12 months, but that was
> part of my proposal ...
I needed like 5 years (60 months)...

So, the wrap around is not good in this case.

Thanks, though.

>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco

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