On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:31 +0200, A. Kretschmer wrote:
> am Tue, dem 15.07.2008, um 13:12:39 +0100 mailte Oliveiros Cristina
> folgendes:
> > Howdy, all,
> >
> > I have a problem.
> >
> > I have a table which one of the fields is of type date.
> >
> > I need to obtain the totals of the other fields in a by-month basis
> > IS there any easy way to do this using the GROUP BY or any other construct?
>
> ... group by extract(month from date)
>
>
> Andreas
It's worth noting that extract(month from timestamp) returns a month_no, and
thus will not be suitable for grouping queries that span years.
I recommend group by date_trunc('month', <<timestamp field>>)
-Mark
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