Re: Programmatic access to interval units

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Nelson Green <nelsongreen84@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good morning list,
>
> According to the documentation for interval data type inputs, the unit can
> be one of microsecond, millisecond, second, minute, hour, day, week, month,
> year, decade, century, or millennium. Are these units stored in a catalog
> somewhere? I would like to access them programmatically if possible, to
> validate input for a function I am developing.

if you're writing C, you can use libpqtypes to do this. It exposes the
interval as a C structure.

typedef struct
{
        int years;
        int mons;
        int days;
        int hours;
        int mins;
        int secs;
        int usecs;
} PGinterval;


merlin