Re: FW: Re: Part 1 of several - Converting a varchar to an interval

["Rodrigo E. De León Plicet" <rdeleonp(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Shawn <postgres(at)xmtservices(dot)net> wrote:
>  obviously it doesn't like the extra single quotes around the 1 msec.  Any
>  suggestions for a work around?

Use dollar quoting, e.g.:

create or replace function dur_interval_msec(int) returns interval
as
$$
select ($1 * interval '1 msec');
$$
language sql
immutable
returns null on null input;