Re: Division of intervals. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Division of intervals.
Date
Msg-id 4194.1048051396@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Division of intervals.  (Joshua Moore-Oliva <josh@chatgris.com>)
Responses Re: Division of intervals.  (Joshua Moore-Oliva <josh@chatgris.com>)
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Joshua Moore-Oliva <josh@chatgris.com> writes:
> I attempted
> SELECT age(now(), timestamp '1957-06-13') / interval '1 month';
> and got the error
> ERROR:  Unable to identify an operator '/' for types 'interval' and 'interval'

I'm not sure division of intervals is sensible --- consider the
recently-pointed-out issues about variable length of months, etc.

Does this do what you want?

regression=# SELECT extract(year from age(now(), timestamp '1957-06-13'));
 date_part
-----------
        45
(1 row)

regression=# SELECT extract(month from age(now(), timestamp '1957-06-13'));
 date_part
-----------
         9
(1 row)

regression=# SELECT extract(year from age(now(), timestamp '1957-06-13')) *12
regression-# + extract(month from age(now(), timestamp '1957-06-13'));
 ?column?
----------
      549
(1 row)


            regards, tom lane

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