Re: Fastest way / best practice to calculate "next birthdays"

On 05/20/15 20:22, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Monday, May 18, 2015, er(dot)tejaspatel88(at)gmail(dot)com <
> er(dot)tejaspatel88(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> If I have to find upcoming birthdays in current week and the current week
>> fall into different months - how would you handle that?
>>
>
> Extract(week from timestamptz_column)
>
> ISO weeks are not affected by month boundaries but do start on Monday.

There is the year start/end boundary conditions to worry about there.

If the current week covers Dec28-Jan02 then week of year won't help for
a birthday on Jan01 or Jan02 if 'today' is in the Dec portion. Ditto
for birthday in Dec portion when 'today' is in the Jan portion.

There is probably a better way to do it than what I'm showing here, but
here's an example:

with x as (
select now() - (extract(dow from now()) || ' days')::interval as
weekstart
)
select to_char(x.weekstart, 'YYYY-MM-DD') as first_day,
to_char(x.weekstart + '6 days', 'YYYY-MM-DD') as last_day
from x;

You could probably make some of that into a function that accepts a
timestamptz and generates the two days. Or even does the compare too.

HTH.

Bosco.