Question

I am trying to automate the process of running a PLPGSQL function for a range of dates.
Typically I have to run the following code that generates a single table per day per function call:

SELECT dhcp.singleday('2012-11-24'::date, '2012-11-25'::date);
SELECT dhcp.singleday('2012-11-25'::date, '2012-11-26'::date);
SELECT dhcp.singleday('2012-11-26'::date, '2012-11-27'::date);
SELECT dhcp.singleday('2012-11-27'::date, '2012-11-28'::date);
SELECT dhcp.singleday('2012-11-28'::date, '2012-11-29'::date);
SELECT dhcp.singleday('2012-11-29'::date, '2012-11-30'::date);
SELECT dhcp.singleday('2012-11-30'::date, '2012-12-01'::date);
SELECT dhcp.singleday('2012-12-01'::date, '2012-12-02'::date);
SELECT dhcp.singleday('2012-12-02'::date, '2012-12-03'::date);
SELECT dhcp.singleday('2012-12-03'::date, '2012-12-04'::date);

Is there a good way to automate this sort of thing with a simple loop or function for an arbitrary date range?

I am thinking it might be hard to handle the cases of going month to month so I suppose it is better assume the date range is for a single month.

Answer 1

No need for functions:

select dhcp.singleday(a::date, a::date + 1)
from generate_series(
    '2012-11-24'::date,
    '2012-12-03',
    '1 day'
) s(a)

This will work for any date range. Not only an inside month one.