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Re: Creating a date/time search function in Postgres.

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	Sean O'Loughlin wrote:

> I have a question about how a certain function would look. Basically, what I
> want to do is having something that would take in a 'from' date (day, month,
> year) and a 'to' date (also day, month and year) and then spit back a series
> of records whose timestamps fall between those two dates. How would a basic
> function like that look like? Would I need to have separate integers for the
> day month and year, or is there a date/time object I could use instead? I am
> somewhat new to Postgres, but not SQL altogether.

Maybe you don't really need a function. How about:

test=> SELECT '2006-08-30'::date +
        generate_series(1,'2006-09-04'::date - '2006-08-30'::date);
  ?column?
------------
 2006-08-31
 2006-09-01
 2006-09-02
 2006-09-03
 2006-09-04
(5 rows)

-- 
 Daniel
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