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From Luiz Eduardo Cantanhede Neri
Subject extract and interval
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Msg-id 252e1f290905250615h7569127bqc4f46fcb3be29906@mail.gmail.com
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Is there an good way to extract the interval unit that were used?

E.g. I used interval '2h' and another case I used '3d', theses are respectively  2 hours and 3 days, but the format that came on select is '02:00:00' for hour and '3 days' for days

What I'm looking for is something like 2h and 3d just as inserted.
The only solution so far I could came up with is call to_char function using the unit of time and get the highest position for each couple of digits.
Ex: to_char(interval, 'DDHH24')
let's suppose the result is 0003 then I know it's 3 hours if I get 0100 I know it's 1 day.

Open to suggestions :)

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