Обсуждение: How to store in hours:minutes:seconds where hours may be bigger than 24

> On Mar 19, 2024, at 19:56, Celia McInnis <celia.mcinnis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Steve, but No - when I insert 25:17:07::interval into my table I get 01:17:07 into the
table- i.e., it replaces 25 hours by (25 mod 24) hours or 1 hour, and this is not what I want. I really need the number
ofhours rather than the number of hours mod 24. Do I have to make a composite type to get what I want??? 

I'm not seeing that result:

xof=# create table t (i interval);
CREATE TABLE
xof=# insert into t values('25:17:07'::interval);
INSERT 0 1
xof=# select * from t;
    i
----------
 25:17:07
(1 row)

Can you show what you are doing that gets the result you describe?

Celia McInnis <celia.mcinnis@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks for the suggestion, Steve, but No - when I insert 25:17:07::interval
> into my table I get 01:17:07 into the table - i.e., it replaces 25 hours by
> (25 mod 24) hours or 1 hour, and this is not what I want.

There is definitely something you are not telling us, because it
works in isolation:

regression=# create table t (f1 interval);
CREATE TABLE
regression=# insert into t values ('25:17:07'::interval);
INSERT 0 1
regression=# select * from t;
    f1    
----------
 25:17:07
(1 row)

What's the full context of your problem?

            regards, tom lane