Re: seleting all dates between two dates - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From george young
Subject Re: seleting all dates between two dates
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Msg-id 20010606123117.097eb4cd.gry@ll.mit.edu
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In response to seleting all dates between two dates  ("Jeff Barrett" <jbarrett@familynetwork.com>)
List pgsql-sql
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 15:09:33 -0400
"Jeff Barrett" <jbarrett@familynetwork.com> wrote:
> I am interested in a query where I can select all dates between two dates. I
> figure I can build a table of all valid dates with a resonable range and
> then select from that table, but I would like to use the power of sql to get
> the work done without building a date table. Any ideas?
> 
> For example:
> I want all dates between 05-29-2001 and 06-02-2001
> The result set would be:
> 05-30-2001
> 05-31-2001
> 06-01-2001

You got it almost right already!  Use the "between" operator; *sometimes* SQL *is* intuitive:
E.g. in my database:

select run_name from runs where comp_date between '2001-may-10' and '2001-jun-5';    run_name     |       comp_date
  
 
------------------+------------------------spcsil-103-RP    | 2001-06-04 21:09:35-04airtest_0120     | 2001-05-21
20:10:50-04spcsil-101-RP   | 2001-05-23 17:44:11-04...
 

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