Re: [GENERAL] extract day from interval

2008-03-27 Thread Seb
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:06:59 -0400, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Efficiency is moot, it's just plain wrong. Or at least something is > wrong here, Subtraction of two "date" values gives an integer number > of days already, so I'd expect the EXTRACT to fail altogether. You > sure

Re: [GENERAL] extract day from interval

2008-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Seb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >EXTRACT(DAY FROM (table_b.date - table_a.date)) AS age, > Is this an efficient way to get the days from the time interval? Both > 'date' columns are of type "Date". Thanks. Efficiency is moot, it's just plain wrong. Or at least something is wrong here,

[GENERAL] extract day from interval

2008-03-27 Thread Seb
Hi, I'm not very savvy with interval manipulations, but I have a query like this: ---<---cut here---start-->--- SELECT DISTINCT ON (table_a.id) table_a.id, table_a.var2, EXTRACT(DAY FROM (table_b.date - table_a.date)) AS age, FROM table_a INNER JO