How to get the number of days in a month?

Question

I am trying to get the following in Postgres:

select day_in_month(2);

Expected output:

28

Is there any bu

Answer 1

SELECT cnt_dayofmonth(2016, 2);  -- 29


create or replace function cnt_dayofmonth(_year int, _month int)
returns int2 as
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-- ZU 2017.09.15, returns the count of days in mounth, inputs are year and month
declare 
    datetime_start date := ('01.01.'||_year::char(4))::date;
    datetime_month date := ('01.'||_month||'.'||_year)::date;
        cnt int2;
begin 
  select extract(day from (select (datetime_month + INTERVAL '1 month -1 day'))) into cnt;

  return cnt;
end;
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language plpgsql;