From: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
To: mallah@trade-india.com
Cc: jasiek@klaster.net
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Formatting intervals..
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:03:58 +0100
Message-ID: <3E75C7BE.5BFE8C6C@rodos.fzk.de> (raw)
> >
> > Is it possible to customize interval display.
> >
> > eg,
> >
> > tradein_clients=# SELECT cast ('10-10-1999'::timestamp -
'1-1-1999'::timestamp AS interval);
> > +----------+
> > | interval |
> > +----------+
> > | 282 days |
> > +----------+
> > (1 row)
> >
> > can i display it in months and days..
> It doesn't make sense. You don't have whole date, so how long should
> month be? 28? 29? 30? 31?
>
It does. As long the months between January and October are.
So
select age ('10-10-1999'::timestamp , '1-1-1999'::timestamp ) ;
age
---------------
9 mons 9 days
(1 row)
Regards, Christoph
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