Re: getting daily stats for event counts

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Gauthier <davegauthierpg(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: getting daily stats for event counts
Date: 2020-06-23 16:28:30
Message-ID: 2153718.1592929710@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Gauthier <davegauthierpg(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I have a table which logs the inception of an event with an
> "incept_datetime" (timestamptz) field. I want to know how many events
> occurred per day from one date to the next using midnight as a marker for
> each day reported. The end result should be something like...

> 2019-06-23 44
> 2019-06-24 18
> 2019-06-25 38
> etc...

> Is there a query that can do this ?

Something involving GROUP BY date_trunc('day', incept_datetime)
ought to do it, possibly with some fooling around required
depending on what definition of "midnight" you want to use.

regards, tom lane

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