On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:20:02 -0700, Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
>
> Is there any way to make a timestamp difference operation not return an
> interval? I'd like to get hours, minutes and seconds only, not the "1 day"
> or whatnot.
When you take a difference of two timestamps, you are going to get an
interval that does not have a year, month difference component.
You can get the interval value in seconds by using
extract(epoch from interval).
You can then further manipulate this value to get hours, minutes and seconds.