Number of days in a tstzrange? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From skinner@britvault.co.uk (Craig R. Skinner)
Subject Number of days in a tstzrange?
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Msg-id 20131024204638.GA31094@teak.britvault.co.uk
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Hi folks,

How can the number of days contained within a range be found? (9.2)

For example, with these timestamp ranges,        get these (integer) number of days:

tstzrange('2013-10-01 07:00', '2013-10-01 07:15') | 1 (day)
tstzrange('2013-10-01 07:00', '2013-10-01 23:45') | 1 (day)
tstzrange('2013-10-01 02:00', '2013-10-02 23:45') | 2 (days)
tstzrange('2013-10-01 07:00', '2013-10-03 01:00') | 2 (days)
tstzrange('2013-10-01 01:00', '2013-10-03 23:00') | 3 (days)
tstzrange('2013-10-01 23:00', '2013-10-04 01:00') | 4 (days)

In my digging about, I've not found a builtin function for this.

Is is necessary pull out the lower() and upper() timestamp elements,
then get the date interval between them?

Cheers,
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