EPOCH TIMESTAMP Conversion Problem

hi all,

I have a table 'myTable'.
There is an attribute in the table as,

Column | Type | Modifiers
-----------------+-----------------------------+-----------
mydate | timestamp without time zone | not null

I want to convert MAX(mydate) from myTable to Epoch.

SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE '2007-11-01
17:42:01.81693') ::int4;

How the above query can be used to convert MAX(mydate) to EPoch value?
Is there any other query that I can use?
I think it is not worth to write a function/procedure to just replace
the value in a query?

Please HELP...................

Thanks in advance

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Amitanand N. Chikorde.
Software Engineer
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