Postgresql query between date ranges

Question

I am trying to query my postgresql db to return results where a date is in certain month and year. In other words I would like all the values for a month-year.

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Answer 1

From PostreSQL 9.2 Range Types are supported. So you can write this like:

SELECT user_id
FROM user_logs
WHERE '[2014-02-01, 2014-03-01]'::daterange @> login_date

this should be more efficient than the string comparison