Re: Integer input functions for date and timestamp

Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie oct 22 16:54:01 -0300 2010:

> Ooh, I like it.  A related personal pet peeve of mine: AFAIK the
> easiest way to convert from an integer number of seconds to an
> interval representing that many seconds is:
> 
> (the_int || ' s')::interval
> 
> I guess we don't want to get too carried away with this, but has
> anyone else gotten annoyed by this?

Why do you go through text and concatenation?  I advocate this approach:the_int * interval '1 second'

I haven't measured it though.

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