Re: datestyle formatting

On Jan 11, 2005, at 15:03, mstory@uchicago.edu wrote:

> I need to know the day of the week for a schedule rotation algorithm
> i'm working
> on.  Initially i was going to use the function for day of the year and
> week of
> the year to find the first day of the year, but it seems like it would
> be easier
> to use the postgres, dmy format and then parse the string for the day
> abbreviation.  I've switched the datestyle format in the .conf file
> and used the
> set to command, but my output never reads as the example in the 7.4.6
> docs it
> always shows just the dmy standard output 10-12-1999 for example as
> opposed to
> wed oct 17 1987, any help on this would be appreciated


Check out to_char(). It'll probably help you get to where you want to
go.

<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/functions-
formatting.html>

Michael Glaesemann
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