Re: datediff is there something like it?

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: Joel Fradkin <jfradkin(at)wazagua(dot)com>
Cc: "'Achilleus Mantzios'" <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: datediff is there something like it?
Date: 2005-01-25 19:03:21
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Joel Fradkin wrote:

> 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.
>

http://www.pgsql.ru/db/pgsearch/index.html?q=datediff

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> From: Achilleus Mantzios [mailto:achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com]
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> Subject: Re: [SQL] datediff is there something like it?
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> O Joel Fradkin ?????? ???? 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)
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Joel Fradkin
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Oleg
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