Thanks for this, I can easily determine the number of records I want. Andrew On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Steve Crawford<scrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrew Maclean wrote: >> >> Is this the best way of getting a table of hourly dates? >> >> -- How to generate a table of dates at hourly intervals between two dates. >> >> -- select timestamp 'epoch' + generate_series * interval '1 second' as >> dates from generate_series(extract(epoch from date_trunc('hour', >> timestamp '2001-02-16 20:38:40'))::bigint,extract(epoch from >> date_trunc('hour', timestamp '2001-02-17 20:38:40'))::bigint, 3600) >> select generate_series * interval '1 second' + date_trunc('hour', >> timestamp '2001-02-16 20:38:40') as dates >> from generate_series(0,extract(epoch from(date_trunc('hour', >> timestamp '2001-02-17 20:38:40') - date_trunc('hour', timestamp >> '2001-02-16 20:38:40')))::bigint, 3600) >> >> The commented out query seems to take into account the timezone which >> is not what I want. >> >> Andrew >> >> >> > > Depends on what you have available as input. If you know the starting time > and number of records it's pretty easy: > > Without time-zone: > select '2009-03-05 0100'::timestamp + generate_series(0,100) * '1 > hour'::interval; > ... > 2009-03-07 23:00:00 > 2009-03-08 00:00:00 > 2009-03-08 01:00:00 > 2009-03-08 02:00:00 > 2009-03-08 03:00:00 > 2009-03-08 04:00:00 > ... > > > With time-zone info: > select '2009-03-05 0100'::timestamptz + generate_series(0,100) * '1 > hour'::interval; > ... > 2009-03-07 23:00:00-08 > 2009-03-08 00:00:00-08 > 2009-03-08 01:00:00-08 > 2009-03-08 03:00:00-07 > 2009-03-08 04:00:00-07 > 2009-03-08 05:00:00-07 > 2009-03-08 06:00:00-07 > ... > > Cheers, > Steve > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- ___________________________________________ Andrew J. P. Maclean Centre for Autonomous Systems The Rose Street Building J04 The University of Sydney 2006 NSW AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 2 9351 3283 Fax: +61 2 9351 7474 URL: http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/ ___________________________________________ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general