Re: select

roberto wrote:
> Dear friends,
> I have this table
>
> table work{
> day date,
> hour integer,
> }
>
> select * from work;
>
> date | text
> -----------
> 1-1-2003 1
> 1-1-2003 1
> 2-1-2003 5
> 3-1-2003 10
> 5-1-2003 15
>
> how can i obtain this?
>
> date | text
> -----------
> 1-1-2003 2
> 2-1-2003 5
> 3-1-2003 10
> 4-1-2003 null
> 5-1-2003 15
> 6-1-2003 null
>
>

First , you need a sequence of days. Just create
a function like this:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dateseq ( DATE , DATE )
RETURNS SETOF DATE
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'
AS '
DECLARE
bdate ALIAS FOR $1 ;
edate ALIAS FOR $2 ;
cdate DATE ;
BEGIN
cdate := bdate;
WHILE cdate <= edate LOOP
RETURN NEXT cdate ;
cdate := CAST ( cdate + interval ''1 day'' AS date );
END LOOP;
RETURN;
END;
';

The function is like a table/view , where the fist function argument
is the start date , the second argument is the end date.

Now try :

SELECT ds.day, sum(w.hour)
FROM dateseq( '2003-1-1', '2003-1-6' ) AS ds (day)
LEFT JOIN work w ON ds.day=w.day
GROUP BY ds.day;

Regards, Janko
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Janko Richter