Re: Extracting data by months

This might seem rather silly, but could you simply do something like:

select * from database      where date_field >= '01/01/2000'::date      and   date_field < '02/01/2000'::date;

Of course, if date_field could contain many different years, then this
would not get you the result you wanted.

John

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Antti Linno wrote:

> Lo.
> 
>  I'm in dire need of knowledge, how to extract data by month. Monthday
> and year arent' important, those I can't give from perl script, but what
> I do give to postgres are the numbers of the months. Date field is in
> timestamp. I thought about date_trunc, but I can't think of, how to get
> data with it. In script will be 12 queries, for each month, to get the
> news from that month.  
> Btw, is there somewhere a manual about date_trunc, the docs that come with
> RH6.1 distribution are somewhat short and lacking explanation of
> date_trunc.
> Antti
> 
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