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From: aklaver@comcast.net (Adrian Klaver)
To: Shawn <postgres@xmtservices.net>
Subject: Re: [SQL] Part 1 of several - Converting a varchar to an interval
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:16:58 +0000
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> From: Shawn <postgres@xmtservices.net>
> > Hello,
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> > I have several large tables, over 100 million records each. One of the fields
> > is callee 'duration'. It is a varchar that contains what is essentially an
> > integer that is the duration of an event in milleseconds. Could someone tell
> > me a simple way to convert a value such as 134987 stored in a varchar into an
> > interval?
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> > This will dovetail with my next question.
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> > Thanks for all the help both now and previous.
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> > Shawn
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select ('134987'::int/1000.00) * interval ' 1 second' ; ?column?-------------- 00:02:14.987(1 row)
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