On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Carol Cheung
<cache...@consumercontact.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a table called temp
>
> access_date | active | status
> -------------+--------+--------
> 2009-02-01 | t | 15
> 2009-02-01 | f | 16
> 2009-02-02 | f | 17
> 2009-02-01 | t | 17
> 2009-02-02 | f | 21
> 2009-01-01 | t | 20
> 2009-01-01 | t | 21
> 2009-01-01 | f | 21
>
>
> What I want is to be able to get counts of active by year-month. So the
> output would be like:
>
> year_month | count
> ------------+-------
> 200901 | 3
> 200902 | 5
>
> I tried something like
> SELECT to_char(access_date, 'YYYYMM') as year_month, count(year_month) FROM
> temp GROUP BY year_month ORDER BY year_month;
>
> but I'm unable to execute this query because the column "year_month" doesn't
> exist in temp table.
Try date_trunc:
select date_trunc('day',timestamp), count(*) from table where active
is true group by date_trunc('day',timestamp) order by
date_trunc('day',timestamp);
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