In response to Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > There seems to be a lack of useful functions for converting intervals
> > to useful representations.  For example, I want to display an interval
> > in hours and fractions of hours only, not hours and minutes.
> 
> Perhaps EXTRACT(EPOCH ...) to get total seconds and then do some
> arithmetic?

Well, that's more or less what I've been doing (although the EPOCH
thing shortened the code up a bit, thanks!).

It just seemed like this would be something so common that there'd
be something in existence already.  I guess I was wrong.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/

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