Re: interval conversion

> Hello all!
> 
> I have a possibly stupid question- I'm doing some time calculations yielding
> intervals, and for my purposes I need to convert the interval(say, "1 day 8
> hours") into (floating point) hours.  While there's a plethora of handy
> date_extract functionality and the like, I need a conversion.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to accompish this?  Simpler the better, of course.

extract(epoch from some_interval)/3600

Regards,
Tomasz Myrta