Re: How to find out the weekday from a date???

I am not sure how to do this in PostgreSQL, but if you are using PHP to
commincate with your database, you can use PHP's rich set of date
conversion function to do this and many other things.

Good Luck

-r

At 04:24 PM 7/17/01 +0200, Jose Manuel Lorenzo Lopez wrote:

>Hello PG's,
>
>I want to extract the weekday of a given 'date' type field in my table
>when selecting. How can I do this?
>
>For example in a table "bschft_days" filled with values with type 'date'
>
>I want to select all the days within the month 'march' and output the
>respective
>weekday. I tryed this:
>
>select extract(dow from timestamp(day)), day, userid from bschft_days
>where date_part('month', day) = '3';
>
>But it only tells me:
>
>ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "dow"
>
>:(
>
>Any ideas??
>
>Thanks a lot in advance!
>
>Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Un saludo
>
>José Manuel lorenzo López
>
>
>
>
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