Re: Find Number Of Sundays Between Two Dates

From: "Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Find Number Of Sundays Between Two Dates
Date: 2008-03-05 12:30:52
Message-ID: 758d5e7f0803050430n32fb5132q89aee5d832358bee@mail.gmail.com
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On 3/5/08, A. Kretschmer <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com> wrote:
> With generate_series() i generate a list of dates, and later i check if
> the date are a saturday. Okay, you need to know sunday -> change from 6
> to 0 and ou course, you can calculate the parameter for the
> generate_series like

I find it convenient to create a custom version of generate_series:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION generate_series(date,date)
RETURNS SETOF date AS $$
SELECT $1 + n FROM generate_series(0,$2-$1) AS x(n)
$$ LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE;

Regards,
Dawid

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