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- [Create A Composite Primary Key](postgres/create-a-composite-primary-key.md)
- [Create hstore From Two Arrays](postgres/create-hstore-from-two-arrays.md)
- [Creating Conditional Constraints](postgres/creating-conditional-constraints.md)
- [Day Of Week By Name For A Date](postgres/day-of-week-by-name-for-a-date.md)
- [Day Of Week For A Date](postgres/day-of-week-for-a-date.md)
- [Default Schema](postgres/default-schema.md)
- [Defining Arrays](postgres/defining-arrays.md)

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# Day Of Week By Name For A Date
In [Day Of Week For A Date](day-of-week-for-a-date.md), I explained how to
determine what day of the week a date is as an integer with PostgreSQL. This
used the `date_part()` function. By using the `to_char()` function with a
date or timestamp, we can determine the day of the week by name (e.g.
Monday). For instance, to determine what day today is, try a statement like
the following:
```sql
> select to_char(now(), 'Day');
to_char
-----------
Sunday
```
The `Day` part of the second argument is just one of many template patterns
that can be used for formatting dates and times.
See [Data Type Formatting
Functions](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-formatting.html)
in the Postgres docs for more details.