Re: First day of month, last day of month

Well, that's what it does afaikt.<br /><br />>>> "Nacef LABIDI" <nacef.l@gmail.com> 2008-04-24 16:43
>>><br/>Actually I want to select all rows whith dates between first day of the month 00:00:00 and last date
ofthe month 23:59:59<br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Colin Wetherbee <<a
href="mailto:cww@denterprises.org">cww@denterprises.org</a>>wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="PADDING-LEFT:1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Frank Bax wrote:<br
/><blockquoteclass="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Frank Bax wrote:<br
/><blockquoteclass="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><div
class="Ih2E3d">NacefLABIDI wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; BORDER-LEFT:
rgb(204,204,204)1px solid">is there a better method to retrieve all the rows with dates in the current month.<br
/></blockquote><br/></div>select * from mytable where extract(month from mydate) = extract(month from now()) and
extract(yearfrom mydate) = extract(year from now());<br /></blockquote><br />Sorry; I was not thinking clearly -
date_truncis better for this:<br /><br />select * from mytable where date_trunc('month',mydate) =
date_trunc('month',now());<br/></blockquote><br />I have some code that uses extract() for this sort of thing.  Would
youmind explaining how date_trunc() is better for this?<br /><br />Most of my extract() results end up in
<select>drop-down boxes in HTML.<br /><br />Thanks.<br /><br />Colin<br /><font color="#888888"><br /><br />--
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