In response to Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> writes:
> > There seems to be a lack of useful functions for converting intervals
> > to useful representations. For example, I want to display an interval
> > in hours and fractions of hours only, not hours and minutes.
>
> Perhaps EXTRACT(EPOCH ...) to get total seconds and then do some
> arithmetic?
Well, that's more or less what I've been doing (although the EPOCH
thing shortened the code up a bit, thanks!).
It just seemed like this would be something so common that there'd
be something in existence already. I guess I was wrong.
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