On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 02:56, Alexander Litvinov wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I home your date field have date type. If it is try this: > > select date_part('year', date), count(*) from your_table group by > date_part('year', date) order by date_part('year', date);
Is the ORDER BY really needed here? > for month add grouping by date_part('month', date) > > if you need to handle large number of rows try to add columns with year and > month, write triggers for filling this columns, make indexes and things > should be fast. > > > date | data > > --------------- > > 01/01/01| 123 > > 01/01/01| abc > > 02/01/01| def > > 03/03/01| hij > > > > I can see how to group by day - but how do i go about decreasing the > > precision down to months/years. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "My advice to you is to get married: If you find a good wife, you will be happy; if not, you will become a philosopher." Socrates ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly