Erwin,
> Thanks for your quick response Josh.
>
> I wasn't aware of the Postgresql-function DATEDIFF()
> The accolade ' is not a problem of course!
Whoops! Didn't want to confuse you. What I meant was, a PgSQL
function "Datediff" could be easily *written*, except that it would
need quoted identifiers, different from the T-SQL function. If anyone
on this list has written a DateDiff, please post!
> But I have to say to my shame, I was asking you too soon, because all
> I
> really needed was a function that could return me some absolute
> timediff,
> and I found date_part('epoch', date) does the trick nicely enough for
> me.
> I can now take the diff in millisecs since start of epoch, which is
> enough
> to do all other calculations easily.
Cool! Glad that you found something that would work for you.
-Josh