From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: date range to set of dates expansion
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:11:46 +0000
Message-ID: <201201191511.46076.gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk> (raw)
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On Thursday 19 January 2012 08:32:27 hari.fuchs@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Why don't you just use the built-in PostgreSQL function for that?
>
> SELECT aid, asid,
> generate_series (asdate, afdate, INTERVAL '1 day')::date AS asdate,
> acomments
> FROM tbl
1) because I didn't know about it
2) because the version of postgresql I run doesn't support it.
However, it does exactly what I need so thanks very much.
I'll be upgrading my live server as soon as possible, but in the meantime can
anyone suggest a way I can do the same thing using Postgresql 8.1 until I
can evaluate 8.4 on my live systems?
--
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk
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