Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:11:19 +0100
From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how to use a date range in a join
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chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com> schrieb:

> trying to do something like
> 
> select     d.day,
>            c.name
> from       [dates between day1 and day2] d
> left join  c.some_table;
> 
> but cannot figure out what to put into the brackets.

Perhaps something like this:

test=# select current_date + (generate_series(1,10)||'day')::interval;
      ?column?
---------------------
 2007-03-13 00:00:00
 2007-03-14 00:00:00
 2007-03-15 00:00:00
 2007-03-16 00:00:00
 2007-03-17 00:00:00
 2007-03-18 00:00:00
 2007-03-19 00:00:00
 2007-03-20 00:00:00
 2007-03-21 00:00:00
 2007-03-22 00:00:00
(10 rows)

If not, sorry, then please define your problem.


Andreas
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