In response to Howard Cole <howardn...@selestial.com>:
> 
> I have a table with a duration field, stored as an Integer. How can I 
> retrieve this from the table as an Interval type?
> 
> E.g.
> 
> create table test (test_id serial primary key, time_in_minutes int);
> insert into test values (1440);
> 
> Now how do I extract that as 24:00:00::interval in a query?

SELECT CAST(time_in_minutes || ' minutes' AS INTERVAL) FROM test;

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