am Tue, dem 13.02.2007, um 13:56:15 -0800 mailte vanessa folgendes: > > hi guys, > i was just wondering if it was at all possible to turn a year and a given > week number into a real date just using postgresql commands? > > > e.g. if i have year = 2004 and week = 1, > can i turn that into say 2004-01-01 (so that the specified > date is the one for the beginning of week 1 in the year 2004 I have found this little function, not realy what you want but trivial to adapt to your problem: (it returns a string with first and last day of the week) create or replace function get_week(IN jahr int, IN kw int) returns text as $$ declare datum date; ret text; begin datum = (jahr || '-01-01')::date; loop exit when extract(dow from datum) = 4; datum = datum + '1day'::interval; end loop; ret = to_char(datum+(7*(kw-1)-3||'days')::interval,'dd-mm-yyyy') || ' - ' || to_char(datum+(3+7*(kw-1)||'days')::interval,'dd-mm-yyyy'); return ret; end; $$ language plpgsql immutable strict; test=*# select get_week(2007,2); get_week ------------------------- 08-01-2007 - 14-01-2007 (1 row) Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net