Re: Selecting weekdays from datetime

From: Bill Morrow <wmorrow(at)home(dot)com>
To: Martin Christensen <factotum(at)mail1(dot)stofanet(dot)dk>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Selecting weekdays from datetime
Date: 2000-10-10 14:54:10
Message-ID: 39E32D92.CDDBE2E7@home.com
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Martin Christensen wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I have a database of mailing list entries where I would like to do
> some statistics on activity on different days of the week. So say I
> want to do something along the hypothetical lines of
>
> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table WHERE day_of_week(date) = 'Mon'
>
> how do I go about doing that?
>
> Martin
>

I believe

select count(*) from table where where to_char(day, 'Day') =
'Monday '

should do it. Note the three space pad on the end of
'Monday '
to make it the same length as 'Wednesday'

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