Postgres - how to return rows with 0 count for missing data?

Question

I have unevenly distributed data(wrt date) for a few years (2003-2008). I want to query data for a given set of start and end date, grouping the data by any of the supported

Answer 1

You can create the list of all first days of the last year (say) with

select distinct date_trunc('month', (current_date - offs)) as date 
from generate_series(0,365,28) as offs;
          date
------------------------
 2007-12-01 00:00:00+01
 2008-01-01 00:00:00+01
 2008-02-01 00:00:00+01
 2008-03-01 00:00:00+01
 2008-04-01 00:00:00+02
 2008-05-01 00:00:00+02
 2008-06-01 00:00:00+02
 2008-07-01 00:00:00+02
 2008-08-01 00:00:00+02
 2008-09-01 00:00:00+02
 2008-10-01 00:00:00+02
 2008-11-01 00:00:00+01
 2008-12-01 00:00:00+01

Then you can join with that series.