Re: Mechanics of Select

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Willem Buitendyk wrote:

> I have the following function that returns the first day of the next month
> from whatever date is inserted.

See if you can do this with date_trunc instead to avoid calling a
function, which avoids the whole thing.  The first day of next month is:

select date_trunc('month',now())+interval '1 month';

I'd be curious how the runtime using that compares with the plpgsql
version you've done.

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