Re: [SQL] how to cast localtimestamp to bigint???

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:47:06 -0700
"Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10)" <Pradeepkumar.Pyatalo@honeywell.com> threw this fish to the penguins:

> I am having a table something like this....
>
> CREATE TABLE(PointId integer, PointName varchar(50),PointType integer,
> createtime bigint);
>
> where createtime is the current timestamp when the tuple is inserted.
>
> now how do I insert values into the above table. Is there a way to cast
> timestamp to bigint.
> Also can anyone suggest as to which date function to use -
> CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, LOCALTIMESTAMP, timeofday(), now....

You could use(from http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-EXTRACT)

  EXTRACT (field FROM source)
  epoch

    For date and timestamp values, the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00-00 (can be negative); for interval
values,the total number of seconds in the interval 

e.g.:

select CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, extract('epoch' from CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)::bigint;
(1 row)
          timestamptz          | date_part
-------------------------------+------------
 2004-08-13 13:27:30.715408-04 | 1092418051

The bigint cast will round to the nearest second.


See:
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-CURRENT

for subtleties of various current time/date functions.

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