Re: need some magic with generate_series()

or even

select m from generate_series( '20121101'::date, '20130101'::date, '1
month'::interval) m;

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:49 PM, jan zimmek <jan(dot)zimmek(at)web(dot)de> wrote:
> hi andreas,
>
> this might give you an idea how to generate series of dates (or other datatypes):
>
> select g, (current_date + (g||' month')::interval)::date from generate_series(1,12) g;
>
> regards
> jan
>
> Am 22.01.2013 um 22:41 schrieb Andreas <maps(dot)on(at)gmx(dot)net>:
>
>> Hi
>> I need a series of month numbers like 201212, 201301 YYYYMM to join other sources against it.
>>
>> I've got a table that describes projects:
>> projects ( id INT, project TEXT, startdate DATE )
>>
>> and some others that log events
>> events( project_id INT, createdate DATE, ...)
>>
>> to show some statistics I have to count events and present it as a view with the project name and the month as YYYYMM starting with startdate of the projects.
>>
>> My problem is that there probaply arent any events in a month but I still need this line in the output.
>> So somehow I need to have a select that generates:
>>
>> project 7,201211
>> project 7,201212
>> project 7,201301
>>
>> It'd be utterly cool to get this for every project in the projects table with one select.
>>
>> Is there hope?
>>
>>
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