On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 15:56 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Alvaro, > > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:04:14PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > SELECT to_char( INTERVAL '43 hours 20 minutes', 'MI' ) || ' min'; > > > 2600 min > > > > Hmm, what if you wanted more than one literal string? Say "1 mon 3 > > days" ... your concatenation idea wouldn't work. ISTM the format string > > should allow unconverted literals, so you would use > > > > SELECT to_char( INTERVAL '43 hours 20 minutes', 'MI min' ); > > Hmmm, good point. > > Question: how does to_char tell the difference between a code ("MI") and a > code which is also part of a word? ("MIN").
It's pretty simple. to_char(..., 'MI "min"'). It's already supported by to_char() format parser. I think to_char(interval) should be support split interval to more items, like: to_char(INTERVAL '1d 3h 65s', 'HHh MIm SSs') ---> '27h 1m 5s' Well, I'm going to check how difficult will be implement correct to_char (interval). Karel -- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])