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From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: any way to convert date via libpq?
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:55:52 -0600
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I have a C program to read a postgres table.  One of
> the columns of this table is defined as:
>
>   timestamp without time zone
>
> Is there any routine/function that I can use to convert
> this field/column value into unix/linux style date for
> comparison purpose?

select extract('epoch' from timestampfield) ;



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