Re: birthday calculation

Hello

SELECT age(CURRENT_DATE, date '730715');
           age
--------------------------
 30 years 7 days 23:00:00
(1 row)

bye
ps


On 22 Jul 2003, Ben wrote:

> It must be late, because I cannot seem to figure this out. I've got a
> field which has a user's birthday - I want to figure out how old they
> are in terms of years.
>
> If I just do something like:
>
> select current_date - user.bday;
>
> I get their age in days, which doesn't let me take leap years into
> account. Is there a simple magic date_diff function that I'm missing? Or
> lacking that some other way to get postgres to do the date calculations?
>
>
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