On Jun 27, 2011, at 11:36 AM, Steve Crawford wrote: > The query is marginally trickier. But the better calendaring apps give a > variety of options when selecting "repeat": A user who selects June 30, 2011 > and wants a monthly repeat might want: > > 30th of every month - skip months without a 30th > 30th of every month - move to end-of-month if 30th doesn't exist > Last day of every month > Last Thursday of every month > > Typical payday repeats are "the 15th and last -day-of-month if a workday or > the closest preceding workday if not", "second and last Friday", "every other > Friday"... > > No matter how '1 month' is interpreted in generate_series, the application > programmer will still need to write the queries required to handle whatever > calendar-repeat features are deemed necessary.
Yeah, which is why I said it was subject to interpretation. Of course there's no way to tell generate_series() which to use, which is what I figured. Thanks, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
