From: scott.marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
To: Brian Knox <laotse@aol.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: DISTINCT ON troubles
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:51:26 -0700 (MST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0402191451120.7643-100000@css120.ihs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0402191439001.7167-100000@css120.ihs.com>
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Brian Knox wrote:
>
> > ( sorry if this is a repeat, my mail server is being wonky today )
> >
> > I'm looking for a way, within SQL, given a starting date and an ending
> > date, to get back the number of months between the start and end date.
> > If I "SELECT end_date - start_date", I get back an interval in days; I
> > need months.
>
> Maybe date_part?
>
> select date_part('month','2004-08-02 12:00:00'::timestamp) -
> date_part('month','2004-05-01 12:00:00'::timestamp);
Note that I think you need a +1 at the end of that...
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