SQL Date Challenge

From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: SQL Date Challenge
Date: 2001-06-04 17:31:52
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Folks,

Can anyone come up with a purely declarative (i.e. SQL) way to SELECT
all of the Wednesdays within a given time period? Or is there, perhaps,
some trick of the PGSQL date parser I could use?

I can think of a number of ways to do this procedurally, but that's
very awkward for what I need to use the information (to select all
wednesdays within the last two months for which each staff emember has
not turned in a timecard). I'm considering using a regularly updated
reference table, but it seems like there *must* be a more elegant
solution.

Basically, what I want is:

SELECT ALL Wednesdays BETWEEN 5/1/01 AND 6/1/01;

Which results in:

Wednesdays
-----------
5/2/01
5/9/01
5/16/01
5/23/01
5/30/01

Thanks for any suggestions!

-Josh Berkus

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