lista de fechas mysql con recuento incluso si no hay datos en una fecha específica

Asumiendo su postid s son contiguos en su tabla, entonces esta consulta:

SELECT
  DATE_FORMAT(b.date, '%Y-%m-%d') date,
  COUNT(c.postid)
FROM
(
  SELECT
    (SELECT MAX(date) FROM ex) + INTERVAL 3 DAY - INTERVAL a.postid DAY AS date
  FROM
    ex a
) b
LEFT JOIN
  ex c ON c.date = b.date
GROUP BY
  b.date
ORDER BY
  b.date

produce:

date    COUNT(c.postid)
2012-01-01  2
2012-01-02  2
2012-01-03  0
2012-01-04  2
2012-01-05  1
2012-01-06  0
2012-01-07  0

Consulte http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/2cf8d/2

Si su postid s no son contiguos, entonces puede usar un ids tabla de ids contiguos:

SELECT
  DATE_FORMAT(b.date, '%Y-%m-%d') date,
  COUNT(c.postid)
FROM
(
  SELECT
    (SELECT MAX(date) FROM ex) + INTERVAL 3 DAY - INTERVAL a.id DAY AS date
  FROM
    ids a
) b
LEFT JOIN
  ex c ON c.date = b.date
GROUP BY
  b.date
ORDER BY
  b.date DESC
LIMIT 7

Consulte http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/13035/1