Re: Date manipulation

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Mark <mark(at)zserve(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Date manipulation
Date: 2001-05-31 21:08:22
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0105312307290.757-100000@peter.localdomain
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Mark writes:

> I have a query that determines the number of days that are between now
> and a particular date that looks something like this:
>
> select datediff (dd, now (), column) as difference_in_days from ...
>
> Anything available short of coding my own function?

select date 'particular date' - current_date;

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