Re: Messy Casts, Is there a better way?

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 13:54, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Larry Rosenman writes:
>
> > I have a table with the following, in part:
> >
> > contract_start date
> > contract_term int (term in MONTHS)
>
> Store contract_term as interval?
If I do that, and enter '72 months' in the contract_term field, how can
I convince PostgreSQL to output the interval back in months? It wants
to give me '5 Years'.

I can't seem to find a function for that.

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