Re: Formatting a month in query output

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:31 +1100, Alexander Borkowski wrote:
> Sorry, I totally missed the crucial point there. How about
>
> select date_trunc('month', date) as sort_month, to_char(date,'Mon YYYY')
> as month, count(num) as num, sum(hrs_total) as hours from flights group
> by sort_month, month order by sort_month asc;
>

flightlog=> select date_trunc('month', date) as sort_month, to_char
(date, 'Mon YYYY') as month, count(num) as num, sum(hrs_total) as hours
from flights group by sort_month, month order by sort_month asc;

sort_month | month | num | hours
---------------------+----------+-----+-------
2003-08-01 00:00:00 | Aug 2003 | 4 | 5.6
2003-09-01 00:00:00 | Sep 2003 | 2 | 3.5
2003-10-01 00:00:00 | Oct 2003 | 2 | 4.2
2003-11-01 00:00:00 | Nov 2003 | 10 | 17.7
2003-12-01 00:00:00 | Dec 2003 | 10 | 16.4
2004-01-01 00:00:00 | Jan 2004 | 9 | 13.3
2004-02-01 00:00:00 | Feb 2004 | 6 | 9.3
2004-03-01 00:00:00 | Mar 2004 | 10 | 12.2
2004-04-01 00:00:00 | Apr 2004 | 11 | 17.4
2004-05-01 00:00:00 | May 2004 | 5 | 7.3
2004-06-01 00:00:00 | Jun 2004 | 10 | 16.5
2004-07-01 00:00:00 | Jul 2004 | 8 | 10.4
2004-08-01 00:00:00 | Aug 2004 | 8 | 13.0
2004-09-01 00:00:00 | Sep 2004 | 8 | 10.3
2004-10-01 00:00:00 | Oct 2004 | 2 | 2.5
2004-11-01 00:00:00 | Nov 2004 | 10 | 17.4
2004-12-01 00:00:00 | Dec 2004 | 5 | 8.9
2005-01-01 00:00:00 | Jan 2005 | 4 | 6.0
(18 rows)

This would be perfect if we could get rid of that first column and only
display the rest. Is that possible?

Thanks for all the help.

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Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz(at)simpaticus(dot)com>