I have an interval that is calculated between events that can be days or hours between them.
Some rows show the desirable
00:15:38.687282
While other give me a worse-to-read
2 days 22:20:33.505085
How can I make the second example return the following?
70:22:33.505085
Thanks for any help.
Another solution:
select extract(epoch from interval '2 days 22:20:33.505085')/3600 * interval '1h';
┌─────────────────┐
│ ?column? │
╞═════════════════╡
│ 70:20:33.505085 │
└─────────────────┘
(1 row)
You can build a custom representation with extract():
floor(extract(epoch from val) / 60 / 60)
|| ':' || extract(minute from val)
|| ':' || extract(second from val)
select
floor(extract(epoch from val) / 60 / 60)
|| ':' || extract(minute from val)
|| ':' || extract(second from val) display
from (values ('2 days 22:20:33.505085'::interval)) as t(val)
| display | | :-------------- | | 70:20:33.505085 |
A quick and dirty solution:
SELECT
extract(days from '2 days 22:20:33.505085'::interval) * interval '24 hour' + '22:20:33.505085'::interval
?column?
-----------------
70:20:33.505085
If you want to get more involved then that, account for months, years and so on then you will probably need to build a function.