Months between two dates function

Question

In oracle i can find out no:of months between using MONTHS_BETWEEN function.

In postgres i am using extract function for this. eg.like

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Answer 1

Unfortunately it seems not, because extract(month ...) returns the number of months modulo 12.

There is one small simplification you can make; remove the first parameter of age() - the default is age from current_date, so these two are equivalent:

age(current_date, '2012-12-09')
age('2012-12-09')