Thread: Stored Procedure Question

Hi All,

I wanted to create a store procedure (unless there is a easier way) so
that i get a person's next birthday date given their birthday.

Aka, in one of my queries i am trying to do:


psql> update users set next_birthday=get_next_birthday(dob) where user_id='42';

except, i don't quite know how to go about creating the get_next_birthday function.
'dob' is a field in users that is of type 'date'.

I have tried the following method:

psql> update users set next_birthday=dob + (date_part('year', timestamp 'now') - date_part('year', dob))*365.25;

Which works wonderfully, except when when i if the date of birth is say '1973-01-10' - in this case, it will put
the next_birthday as 2003-01-10 as it always converts the year to the current year, not realising that the date/month
have already passed for this year.

Any help would be appreciated,

kind regards,

simran.

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 23:09, simran wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to create a store procedure (unless there is a easier way) so
> that i get a person's next birthday date given their birthday.
>
> Aka, in one of my queries i am trying to do:
>
>
> psql> update users set next_birthday=get_next_birthday(dob) where user_id='42';
>
> except, i don't quite know how to go about creating the get_next_birthday function.
> 'dob' is a field in users that is of type 'date'.
>
> I have tried the following method:
>
> psql> update users set next_birthday=dob + (date_part('year', timestamp 'now') - date_part('year', dob))*365.25;
>
> Which works wonderfully, except when when i if the date of birth is say '1973-01-10' - in this case, it will put
> the next_birthday as 2003-01-10 as it always converts the year to the current year, not realising that the date/month
> have already passed for this year.

Here's one way to do it using a PL/pgSQL function:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_next_birthday(DATE)
  RETURNS DATE AS '
DECLARE
   ts    TIMESTAMP;
   yr    INTEGER;
   mth   INTEGER;
   day   INTEGER;
   res   DATE;
BEGIN
   ts  := $1::TIMESTAMP;
   mth := EXTRACT(''month'' FROM ts);
   day := EXTRACT(''day'' FROM ts);
   yr  := EXTRACT(''year'' FROM CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);
   LOOP
     ts  := (yr || ''-'' || mth || ''-'' || day || '' 00:00:00'')::TIMESTAMP;
     EXIT WHEN ts > CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;
     yr := yr + 1;
   END LOOP;
   res := ts::DATE;
   RETURN res;
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

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