If I wanted to aggregate a date field by week is the answer the same
or can date_trunc do that? A quick check implies no date_trunc...
-Kyle
Tom Lane wrote:
> Lars <lars(at)sscsinc(dot)com> writes:
> > What I would like to do though is aggregate by each half hour or maybe
> > even 20 minutes. Does anyone know a good way to do this?
>
> I don't have a *good* answer, but a brute-force way is
>
> * convert timestamp to integer seconds with date_part('epoch', foo)
> * round to a multiple of desired time interval
> * convert back to timestamp for display via timestamp()
>
> In the long run it seems like date_trunc ought to be more flexible
> than it is...
>
> regards, tom lane