Re: DateDiff in PostgreSQL

From: "George A(dot)J" <jinujosein(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Yasir Malik <ymalik(at)heineken(dot)cs(dot)stevens-tech(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: DateDiff in PostgreSQL
Date: 2003-11-07 13:53:35
Message-ID: 20031107135335.29716.qmail@web14909.mail.yahoo.com
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Yasir Malik <ymalik(at)heineken(dot)cs(dot)stevens-tech(dot)edu> wrote:

>You can use the age() function to find the difference between dates, and
>use the extract() function to get the years, months, days, etc.
>Yasir

this will not work because age('25/12/1975','30/01/1986')
wil return '10 year 1 month 5 days'

extract only returns years -10, moths-1, days-5.

this is not i want.Actual month difference between the dates are 121 months.

jinu jose

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