Re: Something like 'to_days' in postgresql? Help with a

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "Alan T(dot) Miller" <amiller(at)hollywood101(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Something like 'to_days' in postgresql? Help with a
Date: 2003-12-11 10:07:14
Message-ID: 1071137233.3439.705.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk
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On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 10:01, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 08:44, Alan T. Miller wrote:
> > I am migrating an application over from mysql to postgresql and am a little
> > confused on how to write the following query in PostgreSQL. The date
> > functions and syntax is a world apart from MySQL and what I am used to. To
> > sum it up, I want to select a count of all records in a table that have been
> > added in the last 90 days. My current table has a field called 'created'
> > which is a timestamp. In MySQL the query goes as follows...
> >
> > SELECT COUNT(*) AS total
> > FROM orders
> > WHERE id = 'id'
> > AND TO_DAYS(NOW()) - TO_DAYS(created) <= 90
>
> CURRENT_DATE - created <= 90

Sorry, I forgot it was a timestamp column, not a date:

CURRENT_DATE - CAST(created AS date)

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