Thread: extract last months data

Lo.Today I digged in manuals and other docs, but didn't find any hint, how
to get data from table, where some cols are in date or datetime format,
and the data was about last month, or about special month.
Psql help was unhelpful too.
Here's example:
In table workers is data with different date. When I need to make summary,
I just want to extract last months data, but I don't know whether the 
month ended with 29,30 or 31 (external program, that uses postgres),
so I cant use
select * from workers where date<31.1.2000 and date>1.1.2000
I think I can get month and year number at least, but I can't use mday
attribute.
All suggestions are welcome :P

Stucked alligator :)

Antti Linno wrote:

> Lo.
>  Today I digged in manuals and other docs, but didn't find any hint, how
> to get data from table, where some cols are in date or datetime format,
> and the data was about last month, or about special month.
> Psql help was unhelpful too.
> Here's example:
> In table workers is data with different date. When I need to make summary,
> I just want to extract last months data, but I don't know whether the
> month ended with 29,30 or 31 (external program, that uses postgres),
> so I cant use
> select * from workers where date<31.1.2000 and date>1.1.2000
> I think I can get month and year number at least, but I can't use mday
> attribute.

Try:   SELECT * FROM workers WHERE DATE_TRUNC('month', date) = '2000-31-1'::DATE;

See the manual for exact syntax of DATE_TRUNC.

> All suggestions are welcome :P
>
> Stucked alligator :)

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> I just want to extract last months data, but I don't know whether the
> month ended with 29,30 or 31 (external program, that uses postgres),
 select * from t1   where d >= (date_trunc('month', timestamp 'today')       - interval '1 month')     and d <
date_trunc('month',timestamp 'today');
 
                   - Thomas