generate_series() equivalent in snowflake

I had a similar problem and found an approach, which avoids the issue of a generator requiring a constant value by using a session variable in addition to the already great answers here. This is closest to the requirement of the OP to my mind.

-- set parameter to be used as generator "constant" including the start day
set num_days =  (Select datediff(day, TO_DATE('2017-11-01','YYYY-MM-DD'), current_date()+1));
-- use parameter in bcrowell's answer now
select
  dateadd(
    day,
    '-' || row_number() over (order by null),
    dateadd(day, '+1', current_date())
  ) as date
from table (generator(rowcount => ($num_days)));
-- clean up previously set variable
unset num_days;

Adding this answer for completitude, in case you have an initial and last date:

select -1 + row_number() over(order by 0) i, start_date + i generated_date 
from (select '2020-01-01'::date start_date, '2020-01-15'::date end_date)
join table(generator(rowcount => 10000 )) x
qualify i < 1 + end_date - start_date

Just wanted to expand on Marcin Zukowski's comment to say that these gaps started to show up almost immediately after using a date range generated this way in a JOIN.

We ultimately ended up doing this instead!

select
  dateadd(
    day,
    '-' || row_number() over (order by null),
    dateadd(day, '+1', current_date())
  ) as date
from table (generator(rowcount => 90))