Thread: how to use a date range in a join

how to use a date range in a join

From
chester c young
Date:
trying to do something like

select     d.day,          c.name
from       [dates between day1 and day2] d
left join  c.some_table;

but cannot figure out what to put into the brackets.




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Re: how to use a date range in a join

From
Andreas Kretschmer
Date:
chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com> schrieb:

> trying to do something like
> 
> select     d.day,
>            c.name
> from       [dates between day1 and day2] d
> left join  c.some_table;
> 
> but cannot figure out what to put into the brackets.

Perhaps something like this:

test=# select current_date + (generate_series(1,10)||'day')::interval;     ?column?
---------------------2007-03-13 00:00:002007-03-14 00:00:002007-03-15 00:00:002007-03-16 00:00:002007-03-17
00:00:002007-03-1800:00:002007-03-19 00:00:002007-03-20 00:00:002007-03-21 00:00:002007-03-22 00:00:00
 
(10 rows)

If not, sorry, then please define your problem.


Andreas
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