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Functions

String functions

The following string functions are supported:

||          position(x in y)
left        position(x,y)
right       substring(x from y)
lower       substring(x from y for z)
upper       substring(x,y,z)
length      concat
trim        ltrim
rtrim 

substring

There is no pattern matching on substring.

Datetime functions

The following datetime functions are supported:

extract(field from x)   current_date
current_time            current_timestamp
localtime               localtimestamp
date_trun               now
unnest                  xbar

Examples

  • Using extract:

    s)select extract(hour from timestamp '2002-09-17 19:27:45')
    
    extract
    -------
    19
    

  • Using date_trunc:

    s)select date_trunc('hour', timestamp '2017-03-17 02:09:30');
    
    date_trunc
    -----------------------------
    2017.03.17D02:00:00.000000000
    
  • Using xbar:

    s)select xbar(10,x) from qt('([]1 12 23)')
    s)select xbar('0D00:10',x) from qt('([]0D+10:21 11:32 13:43)')
    

Math functions

The following math functions are supported:

div
floor
power
round
stddev
trunc

Examples

  • round:
    t:([] a:1.123 1.456 2.532)
    s)select round(a) from t
    
    round
    -----
    1
    1
    3
    

Cast

Using cast converts from one data type to another.

cast(x as typename) x::typename