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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:50:13 -0700
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Subject: Re: getting extract to always return number of hours
From: Rosser Schwarz <rosser.schwarz@gmail.com>
To: Chris <dmagick@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Chris <dmagick@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get extract() to always return the number of hours between two
> time intervals, ala:

SELECT extract(epoch from timeend - timestart) / 3600 from t1;

rls

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