Re: date time function

am Thu, dem 28.06.2007, um 16:04:48 -0400 mailte Jasbinder Singh Bali folgendes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a timestamp field in my talbe.
> I need to check its difference in days with the current date.
>
> field name is time_stamp and I did it as follows:
>
> select age(timestamp '2000-06-28 15:39:47.272045 ')
>
> it gives me something like
>
> 6 years 11 mons 29 days 08:20:12.727955
>
> How can i convert this result into absolute number of days.

test=*# select current_date - '2000-06-28 15:39:47.272045 '::date;
?column?
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2557
(1 row)

Andreas
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