Re: [GENERAL] using generate_series to iterate through months

2009-08-03 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:15:25AM -0400, Bill Reynolds wrote: > Here is what I am using in the from clause (along with other tables) to > generate the series of numbers for the number of months. This seems to > work: > generate_series( 0, ((extract(years from age(current_date, > DATE('2008-05-01'

Re: [GENERAL] using generate_series to iterate through months

2009-08-03 Thread Bill Reynolds
Ok, it is Monday -:) Thanks Tom! -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 11:44 AM To: Bill Reynolds Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] using generate_series to iterate through months "Bill Reynolds&quo

Re: [GENERAL] using generate_series to iterate through months

2009-08-03 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
Bill Reynolds wrote: > Ok, I'm a bit stumped on getting my group by query to work which > iterates through a number of months that basically a generate_series > provides for me. > > Here is what I am using in the from clause (along with other tables) to > generate the series of numbers for the n

Re: [GENERAL] using generate_series to iterate through months

2009-08-03 Thread Tom Lane
"Bill Reynolds" writes: > Ok, I'm a bit stumped on getting my group by query to work which > iterates through a number of months that basically a generate_series > provides for me. > ... > select DATE('2008-05-01') + interval (s.a??? ' months') as Month_of No, you're confusing a syntax that's mea