Re: convert a bigint into a timestamp

On Thursday 25 Jul 2002 1:48 am, marc sturm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know how to convert a bigint into a date
> or timestamp in a SQL query.
> Thanks a lot.

The problem is that there is no cast from bigint=>interval directly AFAICT, so
go via text.

richardh=> select extract(epoch from now());
date_part
------------------
1027593096.67471
(1 row)

richardh=> select '1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT'::timestamp +
((1027593096::bigint)::text)::interval;
?column?
------------------------
2002-07-25 11:31:36+01

In your case you'd replace (1027593096::bigint) with the name of your column.

HTH

- Richard Huxton