Re: question about age()

From: Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: question about age()
Date: 2013-08-29 20:28:23
Message-ID: CAOzAqu+1MN7y+Uvk2N7SUcpowSZ0RUBPrG6qDe86X3P6mYGGmQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 8/29/13, Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 8/29/13, Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> I'm using 9.2.4.
>
>
> What is the content of the field 'birthday''? My guess is there's a
> null value for the field, in which case you are comparing two nulls.

Oops, missed seeing the first half of the post with the data.

It may be a function output type issue. Modifying the query as
follows works (in 8.2, which I'm still stuck on):

select * from birthday where age(birthday)::text != age
(current_date-1, birthday)::text;
--
Mike Nolan

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