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arunpjohny on 10/16/07


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Function to get year from a date in Postgresql

Published in: SQL 

This kind of functions will be use full if we are migrating a database from one provider to another like from MS SQL Server to Postgresql.

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  1. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION year (date1 Date) RETURNS integer AS $$
  2. DECLARE
  3. 	YEAR_CONST Character Varying(15) := 'year';
  4.  
  5. 	yearPart Integer := 0;
  6. 	yearPartInDoublePrecision Double Precision := 0;
  7. BEGIN
  8.  
  9. 	yearPartInDoublePrecision := date_part(YEAR_CONST, date1);
  10.  
  11. 	yearPart := CAST(yearPartInDoublePrecision AS Integer);
  12. 	RETURN yearPart;
  13. END;
  14. $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

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