Generating Rows from a date and a duration

From: Tim Schumacher <tim(dot)daniel(dot)schumacher(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Generating Rows from a date and a duration
Date: 2010-09-03 09:40:18
Message-ID: 4C80C282.700@gmail.com
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Hi List,

I'm kinda stuck situation, I have a timestamp which resambles a
startdate and a duration in days and I want to bloat this, so I have a
row for every day beginning from the startdate. I have created an
example bellow, maybe I'm doing it on the wrong angle and you can come
up with some better ideas:

BEGIN TRANSACTION;

CREATE TABLE example
(
id serial NOT NULL,
startdate timestamp without time zone,
duration int_unsigned NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT pq_example_id PRIMARY KEY (id)
) WITH (OIDS=FALSE)
;

insert into example(id,startdate,duration) values (1,'2010-09-03',4);
insert into example(id,startdate,duration) values (2,'2010-09-03',6);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION bloat_duration(IN id integer,
IN startdate timestamp
without time zone,
IN duration integer,
OUT id integer,
OUT duration_date date)
RETURNS SETOF RECORD AS
$$
BEGIN
RETURN QUERY SELECT
id,to_date(to_char(startdate,'YYYY-MM-DD'),'YYYY-MM-DD')+s.a AS
stockdate FROM generate_series(0,duration-1) AS s(a);
END;
$$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

-- This works, but not what I want
SELECT * FROM bloat_duration(1,'2010-09-03',4);

-- This does not work

SELECT * FROM example AS ex
INNER JOIN bloat_duration(ex.id,ex.startdate,ex.duration) AS bd ON bd.id
= ex.id

ROLLBACK TRANSACTION;

greetings

Tim

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