Finding last day in a month - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Paul Makepeace
Subject Finding last day in a month
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Msg-id 20041019121848.GC22444@mythix.realprogrammers.com
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This is perhaps more of a style question. I'm trying to find the 'right'
way with date/time functions to pull out the last day in a month from a
set of data that might contain rows that don't fall on the actual last
date (e.g. Friday 2004-07-30)

 Foo.info_at("2004-07") # contains some logic to make "2004-07-%" for:

 WHERE foo_date LIKE ? ORDER BY foo_date DESC LIMIT 1

This feels quite hacky to me for some reason but at least seems to work.

(I'd originally had foo_date = ?::date+'1month'::interval-'1day'::interval !)

Paul


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