From: Tomasz Myrta <jasiek@klaster.net>
To: Richard Sydney-Smith <richard@ibisaustralia.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Date interval
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:57:50 +0200
Message-ID: <3F73D55E.6030405@klaster.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002901c383ed$a70423a0$8f601ad3@athlon2000>
References: <002901c383ed$a70423a0$8f601ad3@athlon2000>
> 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
select extract(epoch from some_interval)/3600/24::integer
Regards,
Tomasz Myrta
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