Re: any built-in function to get time in seconds?

zhong ming wu wrote:
> I have been using this one liner c function that I call my_now() to
> get the number of seconds since some fixed point in the past. I find
> it more convenient than built-in now()
> and if I want abstime I do abstime(my_now()). Thing is everytime I
> do a major version upgrade I had to recompile this and it's a pain in
> the neck. I feel there must be something
> built-in with pg to get the same thing since I can get abstime from it
> like that.
>
Well you haven't specified which fixed point in the past. But if you
want to get the number of seconds since the unix epoch use:

extract(epoch from current_timestamp)

Scott