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From: Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: First day of month, last day of month
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:16:03 -0400
Message-ID: <48108813.6070401@sympatico.ca> (raw)
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	<481085D1.2010807@sympatico.ca>

Frank Bax wrote:
> Nacef LABIDI wrote:
>> is there a better method to retrieve all the rows with dates in the 
>> current month.
> 
> 
> select * from mytable where extract(month from mydate) = extract(month 
> from now()) and extract(year from mydate) = extract(year from now());


Sorry; I was not thinking clearly - date_trunc is better for this:

select * from mytable where date_trunc('month',mydate) = 
date_trunc('month',now());



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