Getting date list in a range in PostgreSQL
select CURRENT_DATE + i
from generate_series(date '2012-06-29'- CURRENT_DATE,
date '2012-07-03' - CURRENT_DATE ) i
or even shorter:
select i::date from generate_series('2012-06-29',
'2012-07-03', '1 day'::interval) i
As timestamp
:
select generate_series('2012-06-29', '2012-07-03', '1 day'::interval);
generate_series
------------------------
2012-06-29 00:00:00-03
2012-06-30 00:00:00-03
2012-07-01 00:00:00-03
2012-07-02 00:00:00-03
2012-07-03 00:00:00-03
or casted to date
:
select (generate_series('2012-06-29', '2012-07-03', '1 day'::interval))::date;
generate_series
-----------------
2012-06-29
2012-06-30
2012-07-01
2012-07-02
2012-07-03
This should do it:
select date '2012-06-29' + i
from generate_series(1, (select date '2012-07-3' - date '2012-06-29')) i
If you don't want to repeat the start_date in the subselect things get a bit more complicated:
with min_max (start_date, end_date) as (
values (date '2012-06-29', date '2012-07-3')
), date_range as (
select end_date - start_date as duration
from min_max
)
select start_date + i
from min_max
cross join generate_series(1, (select duration from date_range)) i;
(See maniek's answer for a much better version of the "no-repeat" problem)
select generate_series('2012-06-29', '2012-07-03', '1 day'::interval)::date;
For things like this its generally handy to have a dates table in the system.
Just like a numbers table they can be very useful and quicker to use than generating the dates on the fly, especially when you scale up to large data sets.
Such a date table from 1900 to 2100 will be very small, so there isn't much over head in storage.
Edit: Dunno why this is getting voted down, it will probably be the best for performance. Plus it has so many other advantages. Want to link orders to a an quarters performance numbers? Its a simple link between the tables. (Order.OrderDate -> Dates.Date -> Dates.Quarter -> PerformanceTotal.Quarter) etc. Its the same for dealing with working days, like the last working day of a month, or the first Tuesday of the previous month. Like a numbers table, I'd strongly recommend them!