You probably want to use
select date_part('epoch', timeval);
On 22 Jun 2001 pierre@kahuna.versions.com wrote:
> All,
> Perhaps I'm not sing hte correct datatype, but I'd like to be able to convert
> a timestamp over to an unsigned long to be used within C code and compare
> to the output of time().
>
> I can't seem to see any easy way of doing this using the built in
> stuff for postgresql.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Perhaps I'm using the wrong type?
>
> Pierre
>
>
