Interval

Interval expression

The Interval is another type of data type used to store and deploy Time in years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds. And the years, months and days, hours and minutes values are integers values, whereas the second's field can be the fractions values.

interval values can be written using the following verbose syntax:

quantity: is a number (possibly signed)

unit: is microsecond, millisecond, second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, century, millennium, or abbreviations or plurals of these units

direction: can be ago or empty

The at sign (@) is optional noise

Inspired by PostgreSQL, interval data type value involves 16 bytes storage size, which helps to store a period with the acceptable range from -178000000 years to 178000000 years.

Examples

SELECT INTERVAL '1 y 1 d'
SELECT INTERVAL '1 decade'
SELECT INTERVAL '1 millennium ago'
SELECT INTERVAL '1 years 1 days'  = INTERVAL '1 years 2 days';
SELECT INTERVAL '1 years 1 days' != INTERVAL '1 years 2 days';
SELECT INTERVAL '1 years 1 days'  + INTERVAL '1 years 2 days';
SELECT INTERVAL '1 years 1 days'  - INTERVAL '1 years 2 days';
SELECT INTERVAL '1 years 1 days' * 2;
SELECT INTERVAL '2 years 2 days' / 2;