hi andreas,
this might give you an idea how to generate series of dates (or other datatypes):
select g, (current_date + (g||' month')::interval)::date from generate_series(1,12) g;
regards
jan
Am 22.01.2013 um 22:41 schrieb Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net>:
> Hi
> I need a series of month numbers like 201212, 201301 YYYYMM to join other sources against it.
>
> I've got a table that describes projects:
> projects ( id INT, project TEXT, startdate DATE )
>
> and some others that log events
> events( project_id INT, createdate DATE, ...)
>
> to show some statistics I have to count events and present it as a view with the project name and the month as YYYYMM
startingwith startdate of the projects.
>
> My problem is that there probaply arent any events in a month but I still need this line in the output.
> So somehow I need to have a select that generates:
>
> project 7,201211
> project 7,201212
> project 7,201301
>
> It'd be utterly cool to get this for every project in the projects table with one select.
>
> Is there hope?
>
>
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