From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Campbell, Lance <lance@illinois.edu>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: subtract two dates to get the number of days
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:02:10 -0400
Message-ID: <29026.1279033330@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B10E6810AC2A2F4EA7550D072CDE876004B2E65D@SAB-FENWICK.sab.uiuc.edu>
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"Campbell, Lance" <lance@illinois.edu> writes:
> I want to subtract to dates to know the number of days different.
> Example:
> 01/02/2010 - 01/01/2010 = 1 day
> 08/01/2010 - 07/31/2010 = 1 day
> How do I do this?
If they're dates, you just subtract.
regression=# select '08/01/2010'::date - '07/31/2010'::date;
?column?
----------
1
(1 row)
regards, tom lane
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