Re: How can I get the first and last date of a week, based on the week number and the year

From: Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How can I get the first and last date of a week, based on the week number and the year
Date: 2008-02-27 03:10:27
Message-ID: 200802261910.27752.aklaver@comcast.net
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On Tuesday 26 February 2008 5:32 pm, Bruno Baguette wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I have a week number (ISO 8601) and a year, based on theses values, I
> would like to get the first and the last dates of that week.
>
> How I can do that ?
>
> The only solution is doing a big generate_series to build a subset that
> contains the week of all the dates between the 01/01 || year and the
> 31/12 || year. But I find that solution quite dirty and ressources
> consumming.
>
> Is there a cleanest way to do that ?
>
> Many thanks in advance !
>
> Regards,

This will get you to the Monday of the week .

select to_date('9 08','IW YY');
to_date
------------
2008-02-25
(1 row)

Where 9 is the ISO week number and 08 is the year. See below for more details:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-formatting.html
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Adrian Klaver
aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net

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