Greetings, Thanks Dann, Arthur, Mike, Jeffrey, and Bruno. You've given me a quick solution and a whole lot to chew on. I never would have come up with anything as creative.
Thanks again, Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:46 PM > To: Dann Corbit > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Days in month query > > Greetings, > > Thanks Dan, but I searched for, and scoured, that page before asking > my question. It helped with some of the details, but not on the > general approach. I'll try to restate my problem in a better way: > > What I want is SELECT statement that references no tables but returns > the days in a given month. I'm now thinking that I might be able to > come up with something using an IN clause and using EXTRACT, but > haven't figured it out yet. > > Mark > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:16:19 -0800, Dann Corbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > The online documentation has a search function. It would lead you to > > this: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-datetime.html > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Fox > > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:07 PM > > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > > Subject: [GENERAL] Days in month query > > > > Greetings, > > > > This is more of an SQL question, but since each database server seems > > to use it's own syntax for handling dates... > > > > Is there a way to query for the days in a month? For example, > > querying for the days in January of this year? Listing the days > > between two dates would be useful as well. > > > > I'm sure I saw a query like this somewhere, but I can't track it down. > > Just to be clear, there were no tables involved. Just a SELECT > > statement that returned all the days in a given month. > > > > Basically, I have a table of "events" and I'd like to generate a > > histogram of how many events occur on the days of a particular month. > > What I do now is create a temporary table, fill it with the > > appropriate days, and then do a cross join and summation to generate > > what I need. This works, but seems messy to me. > > > > Mark > > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
