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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: CAST INTERVAL to INT??
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In response to CAST INTERVAL to INT??  (Peter Nixon <listuser@peternixon.net>)
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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 ...

            regards, tom lane

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