On Feb 27, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
Something like:
$ SELECT CONVERT('12 days 13 hours'::INTERVAL AS hour);
 hour
------
   301
$ SELECT CONVERT('6 hours 17 minutes'::INTERVAL AS hour);
 hour
------
6.2833

Am I approaching this problem wrong? or is there something out there
and my Google skills are lacking?

One of the obvious problems with this is that you cannot convert months to something more fine-grained without knowing the date the interval is relative to. I mean, what would be the answer of:

$ SELECT CONVERT('2 months'::INTERVAL AS days);

This month that would be 60 days, next month 61, this month next year 59, etc. And I haven't even started on leap seconds and daylight saving time yet...

Alban Hertroys

--
If you can't see the forest for the trees,
cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.


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