Question

I have this MySQL query that makes use of MONTH() and YEAR():

SELECT 
  MONTH(created_at) AS month, 
  YEAR(created_at) AS year 
FROM users 
GROUP BY MONTH(created_at), YEAR(created_at) 
ORDER BY YEAR(created_at), MONTH(created_at)

How would I modify that query to work with PostgreSQL?

Answer 1

SELECT 
  extract(MONTH from created_at) AS month, 
  extract(YEAR from created_at) AS year 
FROM users 
GROUP BY extract(MONTH from created_at), extract(YEAR from created_at) 
ORDER BY extract(MONTH from created_at), extract(YEAR from created_at) 

Here is the up-to-date manual
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-EXTRACT

Btw: This is standard (ANSI) SQL that works on MySQL as well.