date time function - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi,

I have a timestamp field in my talbe.
I need to check its difference in days with the current date.

field name is time_stamp and I did it as follows:

select age(timestamp '2000-06-28 15:39:47.272045 ')

it gives me something like

6 years 11 mons 29 days 08:20:12.727955

How can i convert this result into absolute number of days.

thanks,

~Jas