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...
