From: Nacef LABIDI <nacef.l@gmail.com>
To: Colin Wetherbee <cww@denterprises.org>
Cc: Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: First day of month, last day of month
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:43:40 +0200
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<481095FB.7090600@denterprises.org>
Actually I want to select all rows whith dates between first day of the
month 00:00:00 and last date of the month 23:59:59
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Colin Wetherbee <cww@denterprises.org>
wrote:
> Frank Bax wrote:
>
> > 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());
> >
>
> I have some code that uses extract() for this sort of thing. Would you
> mind explaining how date_trunc() is better for this?
>
> Most of my extract() results end up in <select> drop-down boxes in HTML.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Colin
>
>
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