Re: Time difference without intervals

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 16:11:05 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> I think your complaint is not that you get an interval, but that you
> want it displayed differently.  See to_char() ...

I looked at to_char before suggesting extract. The problem is that to_char
will only return hours modulo days. His question implied that he was
going to have intervals longer than a day, so I don't believe to_char
will work.