In response to Andrew Geery : > Is there a way to extract the total amount of time in a given unit from an > interval? For example, I would like to know the total number of milliseconds > in an interval. > > The expression > > select extract('seconds' from '5 minutes'::interval) > > returns the value of the seconds field (0) in the interval; not the total > number of seconds in the interval. Is there a function like extract, but which > extracts the value not *from* the given field, but *in* the given units (the > opposite of the justify* functions)? You can use extract: test=*# select extract(epoch from '5 minutes'::interval); date_part ----------- 300 Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG: 0x31720C99, 1006 CCB4 A326 1D42 6431 2EB0 389D 1DC2 3172 0C99 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general