Date Time Function / Age

Alex <alex@meerkatsoft.com> writes:

is there an easy way to get the Difference between 2 dates in Days... as
an integer?

Subtract 'em ...

regression=# select '2002-01-01'::date - '2001-01-01'::date;
?column?
----------
365
(1 row)

regards, tom lane

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 23:09:44 +0900,
Alex <alex@meerkatsoft.com> wrote:

Hi,
is there an easy way to get the Difference between 2 dates in Days... as
an integer?

age('date1','date2') results in x years y days or something similar.
but I would like to
have the result in number of days as an integer.

If you subtract two dates (not timestamps) you will get an integer that is
the number of days difference in the dates.