Re: group by function, make SQL cleaner?

this should work,
#
SELECT date_trunc('day',endtime),count(*)
FROM eg_event where endtime >= '2006-02-01' and endtime < '2006-03-01'
GROUP BY 1
ORDER BY 1;

hope this helps
best regards,

Stefan

Am Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 06:18 schrieb Bryce Nesbitt:
> I've got a working query:
>
> stage=# SELECT date_trunc('day',endtime),count(*)
> FROM eg_event where endtime >= '2006-02-01' and endtime < '2006-03-01'
> GROUP BY date_trunc('day',endtime)
> ORDER BY date_trunc('day',endtime);
>
> date_trunc | count
> ---------------------+-------
> 2006-02-01 00:00:00 | 253
> 2006-02-02 00:00:00 | 245
> 2006-02-03 00:00:00 | 231
> 2006-02-04 00:00:00 | 313
> 2006-02-05 00:00:00 | 285
> 2006-02-06 00:00:00 | 194
> 2006-02-07 00:00:00 | 229
> 2006-02-08 00:00:00 | 239
> 2006-02-09 00:00:00 | 250
> 2006-02-10 00:00:00 | 245
> 2006-02-11 00:00:00 | 275
>
> Is there a way to eliminate the ugly repeated use of
> date_trunc('day',endtime)?
>
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