Re: MySql week() method equivalent - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: MySql week() method equivalent
Date
Msg-id 6c52b9e430cd98a630fe2246b83c86c6@biglumber.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to MySql week() method equivalent  (Vaduvoiu Tiberiu <vaduvoiutibi@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-novice
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: RIPEMD160


> select week(date,3). Based on mysql site, second parameter means that
> "Week 1 is the first week with more than 3 days this year(for second parameter=3)"

There is nothing directly compatible in Postgres: we only deal with
the ISO 8601 standard of a week. You would need to write your own
function to emulate it completely. It might be worth checking some
of the mysql compatibility projects to see if someone has already
done so.

- --
Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201011181015
http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iEYEAREDAAYFAkzlQzIACgkQvJuQZxSWSshYVQCg7+ROonN9D9NBYrDOAk0GEc2U
IJcAoJvJfEBI2LNKovpMfegzwyVYh69v
=kMe1
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----



pgsql-novice by date:

Previous
From: Vaduvoiu Tiberiu
Date:
Subject: MySql week() method equivalent
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: Debugging PostgreSql queries