On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:20:02 -0700,
  Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to make a timestamp difference operation not return an
> interval? I'd like to get hours, minutes and seconds only, not the "1 day"
> or whatnot.

When you take a difference of two timestamps, you are going to get an
interval that does not have a year, month difference component.

You can get the interval value in seconds by using
extract(epoch from interval).

You can then further manipulate this value to get hours, minutes and seconds.

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