Re: timespan casting

Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> bignose=> select start,stop, stop-start as start_stop from foo;
>          start          |          stop          | start_stop
> ------------------------+------------------------+------------
>  2000-06-22 20:37:12-03 | 2000-06-22 20:37:12-03 | 00:000
> 
> now my question.. first of all is the first start_stop result a little
> off ? (talking about the 3 0's..)

What's off about it??  Your start and stop appear identical.

> second is there a way i can do a select so it says something more human
> usable ie : 100 days 22 hours 32 minutes..

Try to_char().  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/x2976.htm

Regards,
Ed Loehr