This is not exactly what the original question was about. You select the month
is one specific year only.
What you do it however easier achieved by:
SELECT datums FROM jaunumi WHERE date_trunc('month', datums) = '2000-08-01';
datetime is an type full of tricks. :-)
Daniel
>>>"Sandis" said:
> I do it like this:
>
> SELECT datums FROM jaunumi
> WHERE date_part('year',datetime(datums)) = '2000' AND
> date_part('month',datetime(datums)) = '08';
>
> Where datums is a timestamp field.
>
> Regards,
> Sandis Jerics
> www.mediaparks.lv
>
> > This might seem rather silly, but could you simply do something like:
> >
> > select * from database
> > where date_field >= '01/01/2000'::date
> > and date_field < '02/01/2000'::date;
> >
> > Of course, if date_field could contain many different years, then this
> > would not get you the result you wanted.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Antti Linno wrote:
> >
> > > Lo.
> > >
> > > I'm in dire need of knowledge, how to extract data by month. Monthday
> > > and year arent' important, those I can't give from perl script, but what
> > > I do give to postgres are the numbers of the months. Date field is in
> > > timestamp. I thought about date_trunc, but I can't think of, how to get
> > > data with it. In script will be 12 queries, for each month, to get the
> > > news from that month.
> > > Btw, is there somewhere a manual about date_trunc, the docs that come
> with
> > > RH6.1 distribution are somewhat short and lacking explanation of
> > > date_trunc.
> > > Antti
> > >
> > >
> >
>
