From 91568034883c21ad3feacbfcd4ec542dba1bbca5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 21:37:28 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add Day Of Week For A Date as a postgres til

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 README.md                          |  1 +
 postgres/day-of-week-for-a-date.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
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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 For A Date](postgres/day-of-week-for-a-date.md)
 - [Default Schema](postgres/default-schema.md)
 - [Defining Arrays](postgres/defining-arrays.md)
 - [Edit Existing Functions](postgres/edit-existing-functions.md)
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+# Day Of Week For A Date
+
+Given a `date` in PostgreSQL
+
+```sql
+> select '2050-1-1'::date;
+    date
+------------
+ 2050-01-01
+```
+
+you can determine the day of the week for that date with the `date_part()`
+function
+
+```sql
+> select date_part('dow', '2050-1-1'::date);
+ date_part
+-----------
+         6
+```
+
+[source](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-datetime.html)