On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:03 , Keith Worthington wrote:
> Is there a better way to do this? The CASE seems inefficient and
> wordy but perhaps not.
>
> I was hoping for
>
> day_name(tbl_detail.ship_by_date) || tbl_detail.ship_by_date::text
> AS sort_by_string
>
> but AFAIK day_name(date) or something like it is merely my
> fantasy. ;-)
Will to_char() do what you want? Something like
test=# select to_char(current_date, 'Day YYYY-MM-DD'); to_char
----------------------
Thursday 2005-12-08
(1 row)
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/functions-
formatting.html
Michael Glaesemann
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