PostgreSQL: days/months/years between two dates

Question

I am looking for a way to implement the SQLServer-function datediff in PostgreSQL. That is,

This function returns the count (as a signed integer valu

Answer 1

Almost the same function as you needed (based on atiruz's answer, shortened version of UDF from here)

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION datediff(type VARCHAR, date_from DATE, date_to DATE) RETURNS INTEGER LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS
$$
DECLARE age INTERVAL;
BEGIN
    CASE type
        WHEN 'year' THEN
            RETURN date_part('year', date_to) - date_part('year', date_from);
        WHEN 'month' THEN
            age := age(date_to, date_from);
            RETURN date_part('year', age) * 12 + date_part('month', age);
        ELSE
            RETURN (date_to - date_from)::int;
    END CASE;
END;
$$;

Usage:

/* Get months count between two dates */
SELECT datediff('month', '2015-02-14'::date, '2016-01-03'::date);
/* Result: 10 */

/* Get years count between two dates */
SELECT datediff('year', '2015-02-14'::date, '2016-01-03'::date);
/* Result: 1 */

/* Get days count between two dates */
SELECT datediff('day', '2015-02-14'::date, '2016-01-03'::date);
/* Result: 323 */

/* Get months count between specified and current date */
SELECT datediff('month', '2015-02-14'::date, NOW()::date);
/* Result: 47 */