Re: datediff is there something like it?

Yes I am using datepart, but not seeing how with a datediff.
Maybe I just need to do the date math and put a date part on the result.
I will play around a bit when I hit one not looking for days.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Achilleus Mantzios [mailto:achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:34 AM
To: Joel Fradkin
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] datediff is there something like it?

O Joel Fradkin έγραψε στις Jan 25, 2005 :

> Hi all working my way through our views and all is going very well.
>
> We use datediff in MSSQL a bit and I read about the field1::date -
> field2::date to return the days numerically.
>
> Is there any way to get months and years besides guessing days / 30 for
> months etc?

Go to
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/functions-datetime.html
Check out smth like...

SELECT 'Achilleus is ' || date_part('years',age(timestamp '1969-01-31'))
|| ' years and ' || date_part('months',age(timestamp '1969-01-31')) || '
months old';
?column?
-----------------------------------------
Achilleus is 35 years and 11 months old
(1 row)

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