On 01/28/2013 05:24 AM, c k wrote: > Hi, > I have two variables in pl/pgsql function. > p_fromdate and p_todate > > I have another variable which represents intervals like day, month, > quarter etc. > p_interval as smallint, to hold values like 1,2,3, which are > substituted for intervals as '1 day', '1 month - 1 day', '3 months - 1 > day' respectively. > Now, I have to find if the period of given two dates (p_todate - > p_fromdate) is multiples of the given interval or not? > > e.g. p_fromdate = '01/04/2010'; > p_todate = '31/03/2013'; > > p_interval=3 (which is a quarter). > > I need to find out if the period of ('31/03/2013' - '01/04/2010') > clearly multiple of a quarter and modulus = 0. > Important point is user can enter any dates and choose any interval to > check. 'Day' interval fits to any dates. For 'month' and others, number > of days, minutes, seconds are varying. So we can not use the fixed > values for them neither we can use '1 month - 1 day' or any interval in > division. Also we can not cast them to integers. > > How to get it done? Not quite sure what you are trying to accomplish. Have you looked at EXTRACT, it seems to cover some of what you describe: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-EXTRACT -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general