Seb <spluque@gmail.com> 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, Subtraction of two "date" values gives an integer number of
days already, so I'd expect the EXTRACT to fail altogether. You
sure the date columns are type date and not type timestamp?
regards, tom lane