-- -- INTERVAL -- SET DATESTYLE = 'ISO'; -- check acceptance of "time zone style" SELECT INTERVAL '01:00' AS "One hour"; SELECT INTERVAL '+02:00' AS "Two hours"; SELECT INTERVAL '-08:00' AS "Eight hours"; SELECT INTERVAL '-05' AS "Five hours"; SELECT INTERVAL '-1 +02:03' AS "22 hours ago..."; SELECT INTERVAL '-1 days +02:03' AS "22 hours ago..."; SELECT INTERVAL '1.5 weeks' AS "Ten days twelve hours"; SELECT INTERVAL '1.5 months' AS "One month 15 days"; SELECT INTERVAL '10 years -11 month -12 days +13:14' AS "9 years..."; CREATE TABLE INTERVAL_TBL (f1 interval); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('@ 1 minute'); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('@ 5 hour'); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('@ 10 day'); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('@ 34 year'); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('@ 3 months'); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('@ 14 seconds ago'); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('1 day 2 hours 3 minutes 4 seconds'); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('6 years'); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('5 months'); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('5 months 12 hours'); -- badly formatted interval INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('badly formatted interval'); INSERT INTO INTERVAL_TBL (f1) VALUES ('@ 30 eons ago'); -- test interval operators SELECT '' AS ten, * FROM INTERVAL_TBL; SELECT '' AS nine, * FROM INTERVAL_TBL WHERE INTERVAL_TBL.f1 <> interval '@ 10 days'; SELECT '' AS three, * FROM INTERVAL_TBL WHERE INTERVAL_TBL.f1 <= interval '@ 5 hours'; SELECT '' AS three, * FROM INTERVAL_TBL WHERE INTERVAL_TBL.f1 < interval '@ 1 day'; SELECT '' AS one, * FROM INTERVAL_TBL WHERE INTERVAL_TBL.f1 = interval '@ 34 years'; SELECT '' AS five, * FROM INTERVAL_TBL WHERE INTERVAL_TBL.f1 >= interval '@ 1 month'; SELECT '' AS nine, * FROM INTERVAL_TBL WHERE INTERVAL_TBL.f1 > interval '@ 3 seconds ago'; SELECT '' AS fortyfive, r1.*, r2.* FROM INTERVAL_TBL r1, INTERVAL_TBL r2 WHERE r1.f1 > r2.f1 ORDER BY r1.f1, r2.f1; -- Test multiplication and division with intervals. -- Floating point arithmetic rounding errors can lead to unexpected results, -- though the code attempts to do the right thing and round up to days and -- minutes to avoid results such as '3 days 24:00 hours' or '14:20:60'. -- Note that it is expected for some day components to be greater than 29 and -- some time components be greater than 23:59:59 due to how intervals are -- stored internally. CREATE TABLE INTERVAL_MULDIV_TBL (span interval); COPY INTERVAL_MULDIV_TBL FROM STDIN; 41 mon 12 days 360:00 -41 mon -12 days +360:00 -12 days 9 mon -27 days 12:34:56 -3 years 482 days 76:54:32.189 4 mon 14 mon 999 mon 999 days \. SELECT span * 0.3 AS product FROM INTERVAL_MULDIV_TBL; SELECT span * 8.2 AS product FROM INTERVAL_MULDIV_TBL; SELECT span / 10 AS quotient FROM INTERVAL_MULDIV_TBL; SELECT span / 100 AS quotient FROM INTERVAL_MULDIV_TBL; DROP TABLE INTERVAL_MULDIV_TBL; SET DATESTYLE = 'postgres'; SELECT '' AS ten, * FROM INTERVAL_TBL; -- test avg(interval), which is somewhat fragile since people have been -- known to change the allowed input syntax for type interval without -- updating pg_aggregate.agginitval select avg(f1) from interval_tbl; -- test long interval input select '4 millenniums 5 centuries 4 decades 1 year 4 months 4 days 17 minutes 31 seconds'::interval; -- test justify_hours() and justify_days() SELECT justify_hours(interval '6 months 3 days 52 hours 3 minutes 2 seconds') as "6 mons 5 days 4 hours 3 mins 2 seconds"; SELECT justify_days(interval '6 months 36 days 5 hours 4 minutes 3 seconds') as "7 mons 6 days 5 hours 4 mins 3 seconds"; -- test justify_interval() SELECT justify_interval(interval '1 month -1 hour') as "1 month -1 hour"; -- test fractional second input, and detection of duplicate units SET DATESTYLE = 'ISO'; SELECT '1 millisecond'::interval, '1 microsecond'::interval, '500 seconds 99 milliseconds 51 microseconds'::interval; SELECT '3 days 5 milliseconds'::interval; SELECT '1 second 2 seconds'::interval; -- error SELECT '10 milliseconds 20 milliseconds'::interval; -- error SELECT '5.5 seconds 3 milliseconds'::interval; -- error SELECT '1:20:05 5 microseconds'::interval; -- error