Re: Date calculation

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Date calculation
Date: 2019-01-31 20:23:40
Message-ID: 20190131202340.GB3377@momjian.us
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 02:21:52PM -0600, Ron wrote:
> On 1/31/19 2:15 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 02:11:14PM -0600, Ron wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>v9.6.6
> >>
> >>Is there a built in function to calculate, for example, next Sunday?
> >>
> >>For example,
> >>
> >>postgres=# select current_date, next_dow(current_date, 'Sunday');
> >>     date    |    date
> >>------------|------------
> >>  2019-01-31 | 2019-02-03
> >>(1 row)
> >Uh, this worked:
> >
> > SELECT date_trunc('week', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) + '6 days';
> > ?column?
> > ------------------------
> > 2019-02-03 00:00:00-05
>
> Perfect!  All I had to do was cast that as DATE...

Oh, right, you want date, so use:

SELECT date_trunc('week', CURRENT_DATE) + '6 days';
?column?
------------------------
2019-02-03 00:00:00-05

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