Thread: function for date difference ?

function for date difference ?

From
jprem
Date:
hello ,

 is there any built-in function to find the difference between any two
dates
in postgresql 6.5.3 ?




Re: function for date difference ?

From
Stephane Bortzmeyer
Date:
On Friday 30 June 2000, at 14 h 54, the keyboard of jprem <jprem@srmsoft.co.in>
 wrote:

>  is there any built-in function to find the difference between any two
> dates in postgresql 6.5.3 ?

You can do substraction on dates.

SELECT ending - starting FROM intervals;
SELECT * FROM intervals WHERE ending - starting > 86400::timespan;

If you want something more sophisticated, you have to read the dates into a
program (I do it with Perl) and use this program to perform all the operations
you wish.