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* date subtraction
@ 2005-03-17 18:32 Ashok Agrawal <Ashok.Agrawal@Sun.COM>
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From: Ashok Agrawal @ 2005-03-17 18:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
I need to do date calculation similar to oracle in postgres.
like sysdate - creation_date of the record which returns no
of days in oracle which you can convert to hours or second
by multiplying by 60 or 3600.
How do i achieve this in postgres.
Thanks
Ashok
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* Re: date subtraction
@ 2005-03-21 08:07 Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
parent: Ashok Agrawal <Ashok.Agrawal@Sun.COM>
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From: Richard Huxton @ 2005-03-21 08:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ashok.Agrawal@Sun.COM; +Cc: pgsql-sql
Ashok Agrawal wrote:
> I need to do date calculation similar to oracle in postgres.
>
> like sysdate - creation_date of the record which returns no
> of days in oracle which you can convert to hours or second
> by multiplying by 60 or 3600.
>
> How do i achieve this in postgres.
Umm,
SELECT CURRENT_DATE - creation_date FROM my_table;
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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