Re: date subtraction

Ashok Agrawal wrote:
> I need to do date calculation similar to oracle in postgres.
> 
> like sysdate - creation_date of the record which returns no
> of days in oracle which you can convert to hours or second
> by multiplying by 60 or 3600.
> 
> How do i achieve this in postgres.

Umm,  SELECT CURRENT_DATE - creation_date FROM my_table;

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