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

Here is a complete example with output. psql (10.1, server 9.5.10).

You get 58, not some value less than 30.
Remove age() function, solved the problem that previous post mentioned.

drop table t;
create table t(
    d1 date
);

insert into t values(current_date - interval '58 day');

select d1
, current_timestamp - d1::timestamp date_diff
, date_part('day', current_timestamp - d1::timestamp)
from t;

     d1     |        date_diff        | date_part
------------+-------------------------+-----------
 2018-05-21 | 58 days 21:41:07.992731 |        58