On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 18:03, Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> wrote: > For the number of fortnights, that becomes: > > select extract(epoch from now() - '2010-01-01 > 11:45:13'::timestamp)/60/60/24/14; > > You'd think with PostgreSQL having such a rich type system, it > wouldn't need to come to that. It's just asking for the number of > intervals between 2 timestamps rather than the number of seconds and > dividing it to the point you get your answer.
I think a good generic solution would be an interval/interval operator that returns numeric. Then the above becomes: SELECT (now() - timestamp '2010-01-01 11:45:13') / interval '2 weeks'; However, looking at the code, it's not so obvious what to do if the intervals contain months. Regards, Marti -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
