Re: inverse of "day of year"

Robert Creager <Robert_Creager(at)LogicalChaos(dot)org> writes:
> Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> confessed:
>> Is there a function that would give me the date for a given day of year?

> Something like:

> select date_trunc( 'year', now() ) + (extract( doy from now() ) - 1) *
> '1day'::interval;

timestamp + interval arithmetic is likely to give you problems at
daylight savings boundaries, since '1day' will be taken as '24hours'.
A more reliable way to get (what I assume is) the desired result is
to use the date + integer operator:

select date_trunc('year', now())::date + (extract(doy from now()) - 1)::integer;

regards, tom lane