Question

I have the following query and I need to implement a Mailer that needs to be send out to all clients who’s Birthday is today. This happens on a daily manner. Now what I need to achieve is only to select the Birthday clients using a Postgres SQL query instead of filtering them in PHP.

The date format stored in the database is YYYY-MM-DD eg. 1984-03-13

What I have is the following query

SELECT cd.firstname,
       cd.surname, 
       SUBSTRING(cd.birthdate,6),
       cd.email 
FROM client_contacts AS cd 
   JOIN clients AS c ON c.id = cd.client_id 
WHERE SUBSTRING(birthdate,6) = '07-20';

Are there better ways to do this query than the one I did above?

Answer 1

You could set your where clause to:

WHERE
    DATE_PART('day', birthdate) = date_part('day', CURRENT_DATE)
AND
    DATE_PART('month', birthdate) = date_part('month', CURRENT_DATE)