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From: Richard Sydney-Smith <richard@ibisaustralia.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Date interval
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:18:27 +0800
Message-ID: <002901c383ed$a70423a0$8f601ad3@athlon2000> (raw)

I am looking for a way to convert an interval into a number of days ( integer);

In sybase I would use :

days(today()-r_expire)

where r_expire is the timestamp I am comparing against.

How do we do this in postgres?

date_trunc(today()-r_expire) does not seem to do it

thanks 

Richard

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