Re: Adding to a date

[Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>]

Mike Ellsworth wrote:
> I was beginning to create some financial functions for calculating
> Future Values, PV's, etc...
>
> I'm hoping there is a way to:
> 1) Date of birth + xx years - with a result of date (Result 1)
> 2) Subtract now or an assumed date from Result 1 to get Result 2
>   
Problems like 1 and 2 are easy - use "intervals".

select '1943-06-30'::date + '65 years'::interval;
2008-06-30 00:00:00

select current_date + '65 years'::interval;
2073-06-30 00:00:00


> 3) Divide by ~ 365.25 for years, which would be 'periods' in the function.
>   

select ('2008-06-30'::date - '1943-06-30'::date)/365.25;

65.0020533880903491

Though there may be a better method for this. I'd need to poke around in 
the date arithmetic.

Cheers,
Steve