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 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])