I currently run Postgres 6.2.1.
I wanted to use it to compute my basketball statistics (the classical
relational database application) - enter the rows from the box scores, and
get all sorts of statistics.
My question relates to the 'minutes played' column. The natural
implementation is timespan, because I get times in mm:ss format. Timespans
sum up nicely. The problem begins in calculations such as "average minutes
per game", "minutes between rebounds", etc.
There is no problem in converting timespans to float. I just take the
date_part( 'epoch', timespan_field ), and divide it by, say, 60. My problem
is, after I divide this by the number of games, how do I convert back to
timespan?
Also, is there a way to receive '20:30' or maybe '00:20:30' and not '20
minutes 30 seconds' as a display from timespan? I don't want to build an
application for all this, because, frankly, it's just a hobby. Most of the
work can be done rather well in simplest SQL.
Herouth
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Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
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