Re: Calculating Days/Time(Are Loops Neccessary?)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Anthony Apollis <anthony(dot)apollis(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Calculating Days/Time(Are Loops Neccessary?)
Date: 2023-09-20 15:20:49
Message-ID: 202309201520.jqs4jeruhezh@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2023-Sep-19, Anthony Apollis wrote:

> I have inherited this code, problem is it is over code, i believe. The
> package is gonna run once a month and this code run is a loop. How can this
> loop be running and checking data up until last day, if it only run once a
> month?

I didn't stop to understand your problem fully, but if you need the set
of calendar days in one month, you can use the generate_series()
function around some arithmetic that gives you the start of the month
plus when it ends, something like this:

with onedate(theday) as (values (date '2023-02-03'))
select g::date
from onedate,
generate_series(date_trunc('month', onedate.theday),
date_trunc('month', onedate.theday) + interval '1 month' - interval '1 day',
'1 day') g ;

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