RE: Re: day interval

Thanks for the clarification.

The problem is still this:
select date('20191001') - date('20190101') ;
in my servers it is always '273'.
In the customer's DB it is '273 days';

Thanks

Danny

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2019 7:53 PM
To: Abraham, Danny <danny_abraham(at)bmc(dot)com>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: day interval

>>>>> "Abraham" == Abraham, Danny <danny_abraham(at)bmc(dot)com> writes:

Abraham> The problematic code is:
Abraham> select date(cm_curr_date) - date(CM_DATE) into diff_days from CMS_SYSPRM;

This will always return an integer, unless either the date() cast or the
-(date,date) operator have been redefined or modified.

Abraham> The fix is:
Abraham> select date_part ('day', age( date(cm_curr_date), date(CM_DATE))) into diff_days from CMS_SYSPRM;

This doesn't do the same thing, it will give a different result if the dates differ by a month or more.

Abraham> The problem:
Abraham> How to recreate the problem. (You know - QA).

Abraham> Tried changing lc_time, timezone and datestyle .. but nothing Abraham> seems to work

None of these things can affect data types.

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