Re: Bad interval external representation

I have located the error. The cputime is of datatype double and the
conversion to the temporal type interval was failing.

jeff(dot)brickley(at)motorola(dot)com (Jeff) wrote in message news:<dea33a90(dot)0201091133(dot)3a7d6875(at)posting(dot)google(dot)com>...
> I have had a postgres 7.1.3 database running for a few months. I have
> a perl application that runs several sql commands and populates the
> database. I have been running the following command without any
> errors until a few days ago (keep in mind that no code has changed):
>
> insert into w_host select datetime('2001-12-10 09:00:00') as start,
> int4(2001) as year, int4(50) as week, host, count(*) as jobs,
> sum(cputime) as cpu, int4(reltime(sum(starttime-queuetime))) as
> pending, int4(reltime(sum((finishtime-starttime)))) as wallclock,
> int4(reltime(sum((finishtime-starttime)-interval(cputime-0)))) as
> suspended from jobs where finishtime >= '2001-12-10 09:00:00' and
> finishtime < '2001-12-10 10:00:00' and starttime != 0 and queuetime
> !=0 and finishtime != 0 group by host;
>
> The following error is generated:
> ERROR: Bad interval external representation '275'
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct this error?
>
> Jeff