getting daily stats for event counts

Started by David Gauthieralmost 6 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1David Gauthier
davegauthierpg@gmail.com

Hi:
9.6.0 on linux

I have a table which logs the inception of an event with an
"incept_datetime" (timestamptz) field. I want to know how many events
occurred per day from one date to the next using midnight as a marker for
each day reported. The end result should be something like...

2019-06-23 44
2019-06-24 18
2019-06-25 38
etc...

Is there a query that can do this ?

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: David Gauthier (#1)
Re: getting daily stats for event counts

David Gauthier <davegauthierpg@gmail.com> writes:

I have a table which logs the inception of an event with an
"incept_datetime" (timestamptz) field. I want to know how many events
occurred per day from one date to the next using midnight as a marker for
each day reported. The end result should be something like...

2019-06-23 44
2019-06-24 18
2019-06-25 38
etc...

Is there a query that can do this ?

Something involving GROUP BY date_trunc('day', incept_datetime)
ought to do it, possibly with some fooling around required
depending on what definition of "midnight" you want to use.

regards, tom lane