Hi,

The following Postgres 7.1 query extracts aggregated data for an
arbitrary period within each year for sites in a table containing
30 years of temperature data.

topo=> \d longterm
          Table "longterm"
 Attribute |     Type     | Modifier
-----------+--------------+----------
 site      | character(5) | not null
 obs       | date         | not null
 lo        | numeric(3,1) |
 hi        | numeric(3,1) |

topo=> select site, extract(year from obs) as year, sum((hi+lo)/2-4) as
gdd4
topo=> from temperature
topo=> where extract(doy from obs) >= 1
topo=> and extract(doy from obs) <= 5
topo=> group by site, extract(year from obs);

 site  | year |  gdd4
-------+------+--------
 01001 | 1973 |   51.7
 01001 | 1974 |   39.5
 01001 | 1975 |   67.9
   .      .        .
   .      .        .

My question is, how can this type of query be contructed to do
the same sort of thing for a period that straddles the calendar year
boundary?

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