Re: Create Calendar

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: "Muhyiddin A(dot)M Hayat" <middink(at)indo(dot)net(dot)id>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Create Calendar
Date: 2004-12-11 11:55:44
Message-ID: 41BAE040.9040207@joeconway.com
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Muhyiddin A.M Hayat wrote:
> How to create Calendar using Function/View.
> For example i would like to display date 2004-12-01 to 2004-12-20.
>
> date
> ------
> 2004-12-01
> 2004-12-02
> 2004-12-03
> 2004-12-04
> 2004-12-05
> ..................
> ..................
> 2004-12-20

-- Use in Postgres 7.4.x and earlier.
-- In Postgres 8.0.0 generate_series() is a built-in function
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION generate_series(int, int) RETURNS setof int AS '
BEGIN
FOR i IN $1..$2 LOOP
RETURN NEXT i;
END LOOP;
RETURN;
END;
' LANGUAGE plpgsql;

select '2004/12/01'::date + f1 from generate_series(0, 19) as t(f1);
?column?
------------
2004-12-01
2004-12-02
2004-12-03
2004-12-04
2004-12-05
[...]
2004-12-20
(20 rows)

HTH,

Joe

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