Sebastien FLAESCH wrote:
Actually it's not limited to the usage of INTERVAL SECOND, I am writing a PostgreSQL driver for our 4GL virtual machine... I need to store all possible Informix INTERVAL types such as: INTERVAL MONTH(8) TO MONTH INTERVAL DAY(8) TO MINUTE INTERVAL SECOND TO FRACTION(5) ... etc ... ... If PostgreSQL is not able to store months > 11, hours > 23 and minutes or seconds > 59
Well, it's not storage it's formatting. Doesn't make any difference to your problem though.
>, it looks like I will need to deal with PostgreSQL's
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND(5) ... and make conversions, to store all possible Informix INTERVALs...
If you know a little "C" you could build some custom types to match your needs. It should just be a matter of applying the correct formatting as a wrapper around the existing "interval" type.
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