Re: extract day from interval - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: extract day from interval
Date
Msg-id 23849.1206677219@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to extract day from interval  (Seb <spluque@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
Seb <spluque@gmail.com> writes:
>        EXTRACT(DAY FROM (table_b.date - table_a.date)) AS age,

> Is this an efficient way to get the days from the time interval?  Both
> 'date' columns are of type "Date".  Thanks.

Efficiency is moot, it's just plain wrong.  Or at least something is
wrong here, Subtraction of two "date" values gives an integer number of
days already, so I'd expect the EXTRACT to fail altogether.  You
sure the date columns are type date and not type timestamp?

            regards, tom lane

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Seb
Date:
Subject: extract day from interval
Next
From: Seb
Date:
Subject: Re: extract day from interval