> I've read through all the documentation, and I can't find a function
> that takes a timestamp and converts iit to seconds since epoch.
That would be date_part('epoch', ts) ...
> Here's what I need to do: I have pairs of timestamps ('2000-07-12
> 03:33:53+00'), and I want to find out how many seconds are in the
> interval between them. I know I can do
> select timestamp1 - timestamp2
> and I get a result in days, hours, mins, and seconds, but is there a
> way to get that whole thing in just seconds? This has to be pretty
> efficient, because it's going to get called a lot.
... and that would be date_part('epoch', ts1 - ts2)
- Thomas
