Re: functions for date parsing.

From: Robert Treat <rtreat(at)webmd(dot)net>
To: Jeff MacDonald <jeff(at)tsunamicreek(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: functions for date parsing.
Date: 2002-06-24 19:34:03
Message-ID: 1024947243.1647.52.camel@camel
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db=# select date_trunc('month',age(now()::date,'1990-01-01'::date));

date_trunc
-----------------
12 years 5 mons
(1 row)

Robert Treat

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 10:21, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> sample=> select age(now()::date,'1990-01-01'::date);
> age
> -------------------------------
> 12 years 5 mons 22 days 23:00
>
>
> within postgres, how can i parse this to somethig like
>
> 12 years 5 months
>
> Thanks..
> Jeff.
>

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