Re: CAST INTERVAL to INT??

Tom Lane wrote:

> Peter Nixon <listuser@peternixon.net> writes:
>> I am trying to cast a INTERVAL to an INT (or BIGINT) without much
>> success.
>
> "extract(epoch from <interval>)" will produce the interval's value in
> seconds ... as a float8, but you can cast that to bigint ...

Thanks

The following seems to do what I need.

AcctSessionTime = (EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM(now()::timestamp with time zone -
AcctStartTime::timestamp with time zone -
'%{Acct-Delay-Time:-0}'::interval)))::BIGINT

If not, I am sure some users will start screaming shortly :-)

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