On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, scott.marlowe wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Brian Knox wrote:
> 
> > ( sorry if this is a repeat, my mail server is being wonky today )
> > 
> > I'm looking for a way, within SQL, given a starting date and an ending 
> > date, to get back the number of months between the start and end date. 
> > If I "SELECT end_date - start_date", I get back an interval in days; I 
> > need months.
> 
> Maybe date_part?
> 
> select date_part('month','2004-08-02 12:00:00'::timestamp) - 
> date_part('month','2004-05-01 12:00:00'::timestamp);

Note that I think you need a +1 at the end of that...


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