Extracting day of week from timestamp

From: Garo Hussenjian <garo(at)xapnet(dot)com>
To: Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Extracting day of week from timestamp
Date: 2003-07-10 18:16:05
Message-ID: BB32FB75.DF41%garo@xapnet.com
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Hello!

Is there any simple way to get the day of the week i.e. "Mon" from a
timestamp?

The extract() docs do not contain any mention of this conversion...

Thanks,
Garo.

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