know the day from timestamp..

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, jerome wrote:

is there a function that will say the day (monday... sunday) in numeric...

input -- 2002-09-12 20:44:21+08 or just date -- 2002-09-12

will output thursday or 4 just like the date command for the shell..

I believe EXTRACT(DOW from <timestamp>)
will give you a numeric day of week.