Postgres: how do you round a timestamp up or down to the nearest minute?

Question

Is there a postgresql function that will return a timestamp rounded to the nearest minute? The input value is a timestamp and the return value should be a timestamp.

Answer 1

to round down a timestamp

CREATE or replace FUNCTION date_round_down(base_date timestamptz, round_interval INTERVAL) 
RETURNS timestamptz AS $BODY$
            SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP(EXTRACT(epoch FROM date_trunc('hour', $1))::INTEGER + trunc((EXTRACT(epoch FROM $1)::INTEGER - EXTRACT(epoch FROM date_trunc('hour', $1))::INTEGER) / EXTRACT(epoch FROM $2)::INTEGER) * EXTRACT(epoch FROM $2)::INTEGER) 
$BODY$ LANGUAGE SQL STABLE;

SELECT date_round_down('2017-06-02 16:39:35', '15 minutes') -- 2017-06-02 16:30:35