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Subtract Hours from a Time Value in PostgreSQL

May 19, 2022 by Ian

In PostgreSQL, we can use the - operator to subtract one or more hours from a time value.

By “time” value, this could be an actual time value, a timestamp, or an interval. We can also subtract hours from a date value or a date and time combination.

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GREATEST() Function in PostgreSQL

May 9, 2022 by Ian

In PostgreSQL, the GREATEST() function returns the greatest (or largest) value from a list of any number of expressions.

The GREATEST() function is not included in the SQL standard, but it’s a popular extension that many major RDBMSs support.

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LEAST() Function in PostgreSQL

May 8, 2022 by Ian

In PostgreSQL, the LEAST() function returns the smallest value from a list of any number of expressions.

The LEAST() function is not included in the SQL standard, but it’s a popular extension that many major RDBMSs support.

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How to Convert a Unix Timestamp to a Date/Time Value in PostgreSQL

May 5, 2022 by Ian

In PostgreSQL, we can use the to_timestamp() function to convert a Unix timestamp value to a date/time value.

The Unix timestamp (also known as Unix Epoch time, Unix time, or POSIX time) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Thursday, 1 January 1970, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Subtract Weeks from a Date in PostgreSQL

May 2, 2022 by Ian

We can use the - operator to subtract one or more weeks from a date in PostgreSQL.

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Get the Last Day of the Month in PostgreSQL

April 29, 2022 by Ian

We can use the following technique in PostgreSQL to return the last day of a given month.

This could be the last day of the current month, or the last day of the month based on a date that we specify.

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Subtract Months from a Date in PostgreSQL

April 25, 2022 by Ian

In PostgreSQL, we can use the - operator to subtract one or more months from a date.

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Return the Unix Timestamp in PostgreSQL

April 19, 2022 by Ian

In PostgreSQL, we can use the extract() function along with the epoch argument to return the Unix timestamp.

We can return the Unix timestamp based on the current date/time, or we can get it based on another specified date/time.

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Subtract Minutes from a Time Value in PostgreSQL

April 16, 2022 by Ian

In PostgreSQL, we can use the - operator to subtract one or more minutes from a time value.

By “time” value, this could be an actual time value, a timestamp, or an interval. We can also subtract minutes from a date value or a date and time combination.

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Get the Number of Days in a Month in PostgreSQL

April 12, 2022 by Ian

Here’s an example of using PostgreSQL to return the number of days in a month, based on a given date.

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