Hi,
What's the best way to obtain the Julian day from a postgresql
date?
PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on i386-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC
i386-redhat-linux-gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
I'm doing some date arithmetic with 1 day intervals and want
to, for example, round to the even Julian day. I suppose
I could always take the interval from julian day zero
and then divide by the number of seconds in a day, but that
sounds both brutal and potentially inaccurate due to leap
seconds and so forth.
There's mention of being able to do this in the list archives,
but nobody says how it's actually done.
Thanks.
Karl <ko*@meme.com >
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Karl O. Pinc wrote: What's the best way to obtain the Julian day from a postgresql date?
=> select to_char('17 may 1970'::date,'J' );
to_char
---------
2440724
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On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:14 -0500,
"Karl O. Pinc" <ko*@meme.com > wrote: Hi,
What's the best way to obtain the Julian day from a postgresql date?
PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on i386-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC i386-redhat-linux-gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
I'm doing some date arithmetic with 1 day intervals and want to, for example, round to the even Julian day. I suppose I could always take the interval from julian day zero and then divide by the number of seconds in a day, but that sounds both brutal and potentially inaccurate due to leap seconds and so forth.
There's mention of being able to do this in the list archives, but nobody says how it's actually done.
You might be interested to know that there are operators that combine
date and integer types that might be usable directly instead of
converting to Julian days.
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On 2004.09.09 14:11 Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:14 -0500, "Karl O. Pinc" <ko*@meme.com > wrote: Hi,
What's the best way to obtain the Julian day from a postgresql date?
PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on i386-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC i386-redhat-linux-gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
I'm doing some date arithmetic with 1 day intervals and want to, for example, round to the even Julian day.
You might be interested to know that there are operators that combine date and integer types that might be usable directly instead of converting to Julian days.
Thanks. (It's not documented for 7.3 but works. It is documented
for 7.4.)
Unfortunately modulo (%) does not operate on dates so I still need
to convert to Julian day. :-( I need to know where I am within a
regular repeating interval. Mostly, in my case, modulo 2.
(We arbitrarly decided to begin our interval on Julian Day 0.)
Karl <ko*@meme.com >
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On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 16:32:18 -0500,
"Karl O. Pinc" <ko*@meme.com > wrote: Unfortunately modulo (%) does not operate on dates so I still need
to convert to Julian day. :-( I need to know where I am within a regular repeating interval. Mostly, in my case, modulo 2. (We arbitrarly decided to begin our interval on Julian Day 0.)
If you keep your data in a date field you can get the Julian day
by subtracting the appropiate date. You can then do mod on this
difference.
You could also do the subtraction before storing the data if you want
to keep it internally as Julian days.
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On 2004.09.10 20:32 Bruno Wolff III wrote: If you keep your data in a date field you can get the Julian day by subtracting the appropiate date. You can then do mod on this difference.
I've been doing:
CAST (to_char(date, 'J') AS INT)
but your way seems faster. Is it?
Karl <ko*@meme.com >
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"Karl O. Pinc" <ko*@meme.com > writes: On 2004.09.10 20:32 Bruno Wolff III wrote: If you keep your data in a date field you can get the Julian day by subtracting the appropiate date. You can then do mod on this difference.
I've been doing: CAST (to_char(date, 'J') AS INT) but your way seems faster. Is it?
Date subtraction is extremely fast (it's really the same as integer
subtraction), so yes I'd expect it to beat the pants off doing to_char
and then conversion back to integer.
Another advantage is that you can equally easily adopt *any* base date,
it doesn't have to be Julian day 0. This would let you shift between
say Monday and Sunday as start-of-the-week without extra logic.
regards, tom lane
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On 2004.09.11 10:33 Tom Lane wrote: "Karl O. Pinc" <ko*@meme.com > writes: On 2004.09.10 20:32 Bruno Wolff III wrote: If you keep your data in a date field you can get the Julian day by subtracting the appropiate date. You can then do mod on this difference.
I've been doing: CAST (to_char(date, 'J') AS INT) but your way seems faster. Is it?
Date subtraction is extremely fast (it's really the same as integer subtraction), so yes I'd expect it to beat the pants off doing to_char and then conversion back to integer.
There seems to be no corresponding quick reverse transformation,
integer (julian day) to date. (Postgres 7.3.)
DELCARE
day_zero CONSTANT DATE := CAST (0 AS DATE);
julian_day INT;
BEGIN
RETURN day_zero + CAST (julian_day || ' days' AS INTERVAL);
seems barely faster than
RETURN TO_DATE(CAST (julian_day AS TEXT), ''J'')
I'd be leery about wacky leap seconds and so forth or I'd
try multiplying days be seconds and cast to interval or something
like that.
Karl <ko*@meme.com >
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"Karl O. Pinc" <ko*@meme.com > writes: RETURN day_zero + CAST (julian_day || ' days' AS INTERVAL);
That's certainly the hard way. Just use the date + integer operator
(ie, "RETURN day_zero + julian_day").
day_zero CONSTANT DATE := CAST (0 AS DATE);
Does that really work? I get
regression=# select CAST (0 AS DATE);
ERROR: cannot cast type integer to date
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On 2004.09.11 13:09 Tom Lane wrote: "Karl O. Pinc" <ko*@meme.com > writes: RETURN day_zero + CAST (julian_day || ' days' AS INTERVAL); That's certainly the hard way. Just use the date + integer operator (ie, "RETURN day_zero + julian_day").
Doh! Thanks. I'm stuck on intervals. day_zero CONSTANT DATE := CAST (0 AS DATE);
Does that really work? I get
regression=# select CAST (0 AS DATE); ERROR: cannot cast type integer to date
No. I'm trying to come up with something that does,
like the text representation of julian day zero,
and get odd stuff.
babase_test=> select to_date('0', 'J');
to_date ---------------
0001-01-01 BC
(1 row)
babase_test=> select to_char(date '0001-01-01 BC', 'J');
to_char ---------
1721060
(1 row)
babase_test=> select to_date('172106 0', 'J');
to_date ---------------
0001-01-01 BC
(1 row)
Are there external representations of BC dates?
PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on i386-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC
i386-redhat-linux-gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
Karl <ko*@meme.com >
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