On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote:
> Why do you have the age stored at all? When you SELECT from the table
> and want someone's age, just do
>
> SELECT [. . .], extract('years' from age(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,dob)) as age
> . . . FROM users . . .
>
> By and large, it's not a good idea to store something you can
> calculate from other data you have.
I'm very sorry as I didn't know PG or SQL could auto calculate age
with existing parameters. I'm trying to learn as much SQL as I can
during my spare time. I tried the following and it worked great!
ide=# SELECT extract('years' from age(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,dob)) as age
FROM users;
age
-----
31
(1 row)
THANK YOU;
