On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:37:52AM -0500, phil campaigne wrote: > > Hi All, > I have stored event records in Postgresql 7.3.4 and now need to > calculate the duration between each event in succession. I have > "record_id" and a" timestamp without time zone" columns for each event. > > What is a good way to calculate the difference in timestamp and store it > in the record as duration. I am doing this as part of a java > application on RH linux 8.0. Have you tried just subtracting them? That will give you a value of type "interval" which you can then store... Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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