diff --git a/tests/test_codecs.py b/tests/test_codecs.py
index 0eacf4e8..e9553ebb 100644
--- a/tests/test_codecs.py
+++ b/tests/test_codecs.py
@@ -1499,7 +1499,7 @@ async def test_timetz_encoding(self):
                 await self.con.execute("SET TIME ZONE 'America/Toronto'")
                 # Check decoding:
                 row = await self.con.fetchrow(
-                    'SELECT extract(epoch from now()) AS epoch, '
+                    'SELECT extract(epoch from now())::float8 AS epoch, '
                     'now()::date as date, now()::timetz as time')
                 result = datetime.datetime.combine(row['date'], row['time'])
                 expected = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(row['epoch'],