Re: Generating dates prior to generate_series

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: Roger Tannous <roger77_lb(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL SQL Mailing List <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Generating dates prior to generate_series
Date: 2007-04-05 15:24:26
Message-ID: 1175786666.9839.33.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 07:00, Roger Tannous wrote:
> I'm using PostgreSQL version 7.3.2, and generate_series() is not
> available, so this is a function to generate a series dates.
>
> The function goes backwards if the second argument is less than the first
> one. Check the two select statements at the end.

As someone who is still responsible for the care and feeding of a 7.4
database, thanks for the function.

You really should upgrade to the latest 7.3.xx version, as there were
many data loss bugs in earlier 7.3.xx versions that have been fixed.

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