Re: First day of month, last day of month

Well, that's what it does afaikt.

>>> "Nacef LABIDI" <nacef(dot)l(at)gmail(dot)com> 2008-04-24 16:43 >>>
Actually I want to select all rows whith dates between first day of the month 00:00:00 and last date of the month 23:59:59

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Colin Wetherbee <cww(at)denterprises(dot)org> wrote:

Frank Bax wrote:

Frank Bax wrote:

Nacef LABIDI wrote:

is there a better method to retrieve all the rows with dates in the current month.

select * from mytable where extract(month from mydate) = extract(month from now()) and extract(year from mydate) = extract(year from now());

Sorry; I was not thinking clearly - date_trunc is better for this:

select * from mytable where date_trunc('month',mydate) = date_trunc('month',now());

I have some code that uses extract() for this sort of thing. Would you mind explaining how date_trunc() is better for this?

Most of my extract() results end up in <select> drop-down boxes in HTML.

Thanks.

Colin