How to I get the date of birth from a full age in postgresql?

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I have an age on the format 57 years 5 months 7 days, and I want to deduct the date of birth from it in postgresql on a format like yyyy-mm-dd, how do I do that?

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We can get the past date using multiple intervals. I added a couple examples to the data to check that it's working.

select  *
       ,current_date + (interval '-1 years'*years) + (interval '-1 month'*months) + (interval '-1 day'*days) as dte
from    t
years months days dte
57 5 7 1965-04-18 00:00:00
36 11 12 1985-10-13 00:00:00
6 2 1 2016-07-24 00:00:00

Fiddle

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