On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 13:08:04 -0700,
Theodore Petrosky <tedpet5(at)yahoo(dot)com> 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?
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25 hours
(1 row)