Re: Cast timestamptz to/from integer?

[Bartosz Dmytrak <bdmytrak@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is a build in function which encapsulates that statement:

SELECT to_timestamp (982384720);

EXPLAIN ANALYZE shows:

Result  (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.002..0.003 rows=1 loops=1)

so this looks cheap

Regards,
Bartek

2012/4/3 Chris Angelico <rosuav@xxxxxxxxx>

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Bartosz Dmytrak <bdmytrak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think You can use epoch
> there is an
> example: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-datetime.html
>
>
> SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE 'epoch' + 982384720.12 * INTERVAL '1
> second';

Yep, but when you do that a lot, your statement gets extremely long. I
can create a function that'll hide the mess away, but what I'm hoping
to do is simply cast:

SELECT 982384720::timestamptz;

ChrisA

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