Re: fomatting an interval (resend)

Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>

From: greg@turnstep.com
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: lyris-pg@tibit.com
Date: 2003-05-14T17:31:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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> Okay, so extract() doesn't fit the bill either.  How do I get the
> difference between two timestamps in terms of days, expressed as an
> integer?  Moreover, how do I get any interval expressed in those
> terms?

select round((extract(epoch from finish) - extract(epoch from start))/(60*60*24)) 
  from timetable;

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