Hannes Dorbath wrote:
The subject basically says it all, I'm looking for the fastest
(indexable) way to calculate the next birthdays relative to NOW() from a
dataset of about 1 million users.
I'm currently using a function based index, but leap year handling /
mapping February 29 to February 28 gives me some headaches.
Is there any best practice to do that in PostgreSQL?
postgres=# SELECT current_date|| ' a ' || to_char(current_date, 'Day'),
current_date + '1 Year'::interval || ' a ' || to_char(current_date + '1
Year'::interval, 'Day') as next_birthday;
?column? | next_birthday
------------------------+---------------------------------
2008-05-04 a Sunday | 2009-05-04 00:00:00 a Monday
?
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
