Re: creating sequential timestamp

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: javier garcia - CEBAS <rn001(at)cebas(dot)csic(dot)es>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: creating sequential timestamp
Date: 2004-03-08 21:40:50
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0403081439530.2899-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, javier garcia - CEBAS wrote:

> Hi;
> Is it possible to directly create postgres tables with a timestamp column
> with some specific interval and within a specific range.
> For example every 5 minutes and between the beginning of 1999 and the end of
> 2003?
>
> I just need this column.

Sounds like you might want to rethink your data structure. I would
suggest using a table with these dates in it as a kind of cross tab table.
Or look in the /contrib/tablefunc directory for a crosstab function that
may make what you're trying to do easy.

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