Re: [SQL] date arithmetic with columns

2012-03-06 Thread Peter Faulks
Good question. I'm porting a (never actually finished) app from Firebird to Postgres. Now that I've re-read how the timestamptz (which Firebird doesn't have) actually works, I think I'll change the tables and get rid of the timezone lookup. Thanks On 4/03/2012 8:45 PM, hari.fu...@gmail.com

Re: [SQL] date arithmetic with columns

2012-03-04 Thread hari . fuchs
Peter Faulks writes: > I have two columns in two distinct tables, one is the starting time of > an event, timestamp without time zone. Data is the utc datetime (for > sorting across time zones), the other is the number of minutes to add. Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you just use ti

Re: [SQL] date arithmetic with columns

2012-03-03 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2012/3/1 Peter Faulks : > Bit more googling and I came up with: > > r.utc + CAST( tz.diffmins || ' ' || 'minutes' AS interval) > > It works, but is it the best way? > r.utc + tz.diffmins * interval '1 minute' regards Pavel Stehule > > On 1/03/2012 6:50 AM, Peter Faulks wrote: >> >> I ha

Re: [SQL] date arithmetic with columns

2012-03-03 Thread Peter Faulks
Bit more googling and I came up with: r.utc + CAST( tz.diffmins || ' ' || 'minutes' AS interval) It works, but is it the best way? On 1/03/2012 6:50 AM, Peter Faulks wrote: I have two columns in two distinct tables, one is the starting time of an event, timestamp without time zone. Data is the

Re: [SQL] date arithmetic

2006-08-10 Thread Osvaldo Rosario Kussama
chrisj escreveu: Hi ALL, I want to do date arithmetic in SQL with a column that is integer. example create table bob ( col1 timestamp , col2 int4 ; where col2 represents a number of minutes. I want to do something like select col1 + interval col2 minutes from bob This is doable wi

Re: [SQL] date arithmetic over calender year boundaries

2004-04-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 16:12:34 +1200, Ray Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The following Postgres 7.1 query extracts aggregated data for an > arbitrary period within each year for sites in a table containing > 30 years of temperature data. It isn't completely clear what you want t