On Thu, 31 May 2001 17:24:54 +0000 (UTC), mark@zserve.com (Mark)
wrote:
>
>How does one perform date manipulation within SQL? For example, SQL
>Server has a dateadd() function that takes a date part, scalar, and the
>date to manipulate.
>
>I have a query that determines the number of days that are between now
>and a particular date that looks something like this:
>
>select datediff (dd, now (), column) as difference_in_days from ...
>
>Anything available short of coding my own function?
Yes: see
http://www.postgresql.bit.nl/devel-corner/docs/user/functions-formatting.html
and
http://www.postgresql.bit.nl/devel-corner/docs/user/functions-datetime.html
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