Re: sum of a time column

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, arief# wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> I'm sorry if this sounds stupid or have been talked about before.
>
> Suppose I have a field in my table that's called duration with type
> 'time without timezone'. How do I do sum on this field based on another
> field let say called dateofevent?
>
> SQL: SELECT SUM(duration) FROM durtable GROUP BY dateofevent;
>
> gives me:
>
> ERROR:  Unable to select an aggregate function sum(time without time
> zone)
>
> Is this because of me still using PostgreSQL version 7.2.1 from Debian
> Woody? Or some other stupidity?

No, there's just no logical way to add dates.  If you want to find the
total number of days those dates are after a certain date, you could do
something like:

select sum('2005-01-01 00:00:00'-dt) from table;