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Sam Mason <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> suppose I thought that PostgreSQL would benefit greatly from
>> a "generate_series(DATE, DATE[, INT]) RETURNS DATE" function

> 8.4 has a generate_series(timestamp,timestamp,interval) which would seem
> to be a bit more flexible than you want.

Yes, I know :-). But as "generate_series(A, B, C)" can also
be written as "A + generate_series(0, (C - B) / C) * C" (or
something "flexible" like that :-)), a
"generate_series(DATE, DATE)" would inter alia get rid off
the need to cast the result from TIMESTAMP to DATE and to
explicitly specify "'1 day'". Just a small, trivial enhance-
ment for a popular use case :-).

Tim


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