Mark Fenbers wrote on 29.10.2012 23:38:
> Greetings,
>
> I want to be able to select all data going back to the beginning of
> the current month. The following portion of an SQL does NOT work,
> but more or less describes what I want...
>
> ... WHERE obstime >= NOW() - INTERVAL (SELECT EXTRACT (DAY FROM NOW()
> ) ) + ' days'
>
> In other words, if today is the 29th of the month, I want to select
> data that is within 29 days old... WHERE obstime >= NOW() - INTERVAL
> '29 days'
>
Or the other way round: anything that is equal or greater than the first
of the current month:
select ...
from foobar
where obstime >= date_trunc('month', current_date);
Thomas