Re: temporal variants of generate_series()

On May 2, 2007, at 8:24 PM, JEAN-PIERRE PELLETIER wrote:
> On the date variant, I wasn't sure how to handle intervals with
> parts smaller than days:
> floor, ceiling, round or error out

Hrm... I'm not sure what would be better there... I'm leaning towards
round (floor or ceil don't make much sense to me), but I could also
see throwing an error if trunc('day', $3) != $3. Comments?

Also, what would be the appropriate way to put this into initdb?
These seem a bit long to try and cram into a one-line DATA statement
in pg_proc.h. Should I add a new .sql file ala
information_schema.sql? Is it possible to still add pg_catalog
entries after the postgresql.bki stage of initdb?

Finally, should I also add a timestamp without time zone version? I
know we'll automatically cast timestamptz to timestamp, but then you
get a timestamptz back, which seems odd.

> To get round, the last parameters of generate_series would be
> extract('epoch' FROM '1 day'::interval)::bigint * round(extract
> ('epoch' FROM $3) / extract('epoch' FROM '1 day'::interval))::bigint
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION generate_series (
> start_ts timestamptz,
> end_ts timestamptz,
> step interval
> ) RETURNS SETOF timestamptz
> STRICT
> LANGUAGE sql
> AS $$
> SELECT
> 'epoch'::timestamptz + s.i * '1 second'::interval AS
> "generate_series"
> FROM
> generate_series(
> extract('epoch' FROM $1)::bigint,
> extract('epoch' FROM $2)::bigint,
> extract('epoch' FROM $3)::bigint
> ) s(i);
> $$;
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION generate_series (
> start_ts date,
> end_ts date,
> step interval
> ) RETURNS SETOF date
> STRICT
> LANGUAGE sql
> AS $$
> SELECT
> ('epoch'::date + s.i * '1 second'::interval)::date AS
> "generate_series"
> FROM
> generate_series(
> extract('epoch' FROM $1)::bigint,
> extract('epoch' FROM $2)::bigint,
> extract('epoch' FROM date_trunc('day', $3))::bigint -- does
> a floor
> ) s(i);
> $$;
>
> Jean-Pierre Pelletier
> e-djuster
>
>
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