| From: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> |
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| To: | Kevin Kempter <kevink(at)consistentstate(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Date math question |
| Date: | 2008-11-26 22:26:06 |
| Message-ID: | 492DCCFE.1060206@pinpointresearch.com |
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Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> I have a table that contains 2 columns ts (a timestamp) and dursec (a float -
> number of seconds)
>
> I want to insert the following into another table:
>
> the ts (timestamp column) and a second date which is ts + dursec
>
> I tried these select variations with no luck:
>
> select ts, ts + interval dursec seconds from tmp2 limit 1;
>
> select ts, ts + 'seconds' dursec from tmp2 limit 1;
>
>
>
> Anyone know the correct syntax for this ?
>
Try
ts + dursec * '1 second'::interval
Cheers,
Steve
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