Re: Trying to transform results of dow

From: Andrew McMillan <andrew(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: Tan ga <gndtanga(at)mail(dot)pt>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Trying to transform results of dow
Date: 2002-10-17 11:03:31
Message-ID: 1034852611.1154.387.camel@kant.mcmillan.net.nz
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On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:31, Tan ga wrote:
> Hi I'm using extract(dow from table.field) and i would like to transform the
> result into it's corresponding day.Ex:0 into Sunday
>
> How can i do this?

You could look it up in a table, or you could hard-code it something
like this:

CASE extract(dow from table.field) WHEN 0 THEN 'Sunday' ELSE WHEN 1 THEN
'Monday' ELSE WHEN 2 THEN 'Tuesday'
...

But the simplest way is probably to do something like:

to_char( table.field, 'FMDay' )

:-)

Cheers,
Andrew.
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