Re: Formatting intervals..

Thank you,

But i am bit confused.
nevertheless i will be able to satisfy my customers.

only last one question,
how the truncate 9 mons 9 days to only month part ie
9 mons ?

(i leave the serious discussion on you and Thomasz)

regds
mallah.

On Monday 17 Mar 2003 6:33 pm, Christoph Haller wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it possible to customize interval display.
> > >
> > > eg,
> > >
> > > tradein_clients=# SELECT cast ('10-10-1999'::timestamp -
> '1-1-1999'::timestamp AS interval);
> > > +----------+
> > > | interval |
> > > +----------+
> > > | 282 days |
> > > +----------+
> > > (1 row)
> > >
> > > can i display it in months and days..
> > It doesn't make sense. You don't have whole date, so how long should
> > month be? 28? 29? 30? 31?
> >
> It does. As long the months between January and October are.
> So
> select age ('10-10-1999'::timestamp , '1-1-1999'::timestamp ) ;
> age
> ---------------
> 9 mons 9 days
> (1 row)
>
> Regards, Christoph
>
>
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