Stupid Postgres Tricks
Hold on Cowboy
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I was curious, how many day’s old am I? I suppose I could solve this in many different programming languages, but thought “PG has really good date management features, let me try that”. So here it is.
Calculate how many days old people are
select * from (VALUES
(CURRENT_DATE - '1976/12/18'::date, 'Jill'),
(CURRENT_DATE - '1980/06/29'::date, 'Jack'),
(CURRENT_DATE - '2004/06/03'::date, 'Humpty'),
(CURRENT_DATE - '2006/06/26'::date, 'Cole'),
(CURRENT_DATE - '2007/11/02'::date, 'Hubbard'),
(CURRENT_DATE - '2010/09/24'::date, 'Mary')
) as bday(days_old_today, person);
Did this help you out? It took me a few days to piece together all this information together, I hope this saves you some time (who knows, maybe the future me will be thankful I wrote this down). Let me know your thoughts. [email protected]