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How to do Postgres strftime to group by month
How do you do strftime in postgres? Read this straightforward tutorial.


Seamus Abshere
on
"How do you do strftime
in postgres?"
The answer: to_char(date, format)
.
If you want to group by month, this is what you're looking for:
psql=> select count(*), to_char(created_at, 'YYYY-MM') from employees group by to_char(created_at, 'YYYY-MM') order by to_char(created_at,'YYYY-MM') desc;
count | to_char
-------+---------
27 | 2016-08
32 | 2016-07
58 | 2016-06
17 | 2016-05
57 | 2016-04
44 | 2016-03
28 | 2016-02
45 | 2016-01
10 | 2015-12
10 | 2015-11
24 | 2015-10
15 | 2015-09
32 | 2015-08
38 | 2015-07
31 | 2015-06
18 | 2015-05
19 | 2015-04
5 | 2015-03
8 | 2015-02
10 | 2015-01
7 | 2014-12
22 | 2014-11
(22 rows)
That's it.
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