Re: F_TABLE_NUMBER_RANGE equivalent in Postgresql

Hello

this is not built in MSSQL, but PostgreSQL has a "generate_series" function

Regards

Pavel Stehule

2011/8/16 msi77 <msi77(at)yandex(dot)ru>:
>
> Are you sure that dbo.F_TABLE_NUMBER_RANGE is in SQL Server?
> I suppose that this is UDF written by user.
>
>
> 16.08.2011, 08:53, "Yuan HOng" <hongyuan1306(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With MS-SQL sever, there is a built-in utility function
>> dbo.F_TABLE_NUMBER_RANGE which generates a list of number between the
>> given range. For example:
>>
>> select dbo.F_TABLE_NUMBER_RANGE(1, 5) will return:
>>
>> number
>> -----------
>> 1
>> 2
>> 3
>> 4
>> 5
>>
>> This is extremely convenient for generating consecutive dates. For
>> example, I want to find out the daily sales information and if on some
>> day there is no sales, the query should return 0 instead of a missing
>> date.
>>
>> In this case it is necessary to first create a list of consecutive
>> dates and then left join to some fact table.
>>
>> With the range function I can simply write something like
>>
>> select start_date + interval number
>> from dbo.F_TABLE_NUMBER_RANGE(1, number_of_days)
>>
>> How does one accomplish such task with Postgresql?
>>
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