Re: How Many Years have Passed?

Yikes!  Who knew there was an age() function?  Thanks!!  Although it calls for timestamp arguments, it works with date.
Are dates usually implicitly cast to timestamp in functions? 

test=# \df age
                            List of functions
  Result  | Function |                     Arguments
----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------
 interval | age      | timestamp with time zone
 interval | age      | timestamp with time zone, timestamp with time zone
(2 rows)



Ian A. Harding
Programmer/Analyst II
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
(253) 798-3549
mailto: iharding@tpchd.org

>>> lockhart@fourpalms.org 12/20/01 05:34PM >>>
> > I have checked the FAQ and other sources and learned that the difference
> > between two dates is the integer number of days.  I want to know how many
> > years are between those two dates.

thomas=# select age(date 'today', date '1980-01-01'),
thomas-# extract(year from age(date 'today', date '1980-01-01'));
           age            | date_part
--------------------------+-----------
 21 years 11 mons 20 days |        21

Is this close to what you want? The nice thing about the age() function
is that it preserves the qualitative units of month and year.

                      - Thomas

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