I cannot seem to find a field type in postgres that is equivalent to h:mm without enforcing a 24 hour day limit. This seems to preclude pg from use - am I correct?
You want to use "interval" data type and then do some formatting on the output to get 123 hours 30 minutes.
See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/datatype-datetime.html
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