Re: Cast timestamptz to/from integer?

There is a build in function which encapsulates that statement:

SELECT to_timestamp (982384720);

EXPLAIN ANALYZE shows:
Result (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.002..0.003 rows=1
loops=1)

so this looks cheap

Regards,
Bartek

2012/4/3 Chris Angelico <rosuav(at)gmail(dot)com>

> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Bartosz Dmytrak <bdmytrak(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > I think You can use epoch
> > there is an
> > example:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-datetime.html
> >
> >
> > SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE 'epoch' + 982384720.12 * INTERVAL '1
> > second';
>
> Yep, but when you do that a lot, your statement gets extremely long. I
> can create a function that'll hide the mess away, but what I'm hoping
> to do is simply cast:
>
> SELECT 982384720::timestamptz;
>
> ChrisA
>
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