On Mar 16, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Csanyi Pal wrote:

> So how can I use this table further eg. to get dates of the school days
> but without Saturdays and Sundays?

You can't do that directly (that kind of calendar operation is outside of the 
scope of a range type).  You can, however, easily write selects that handle 
that:

postgres=# SELECT count(*) 
postgres-#    FROM generate_series(lower('[2012-09-01, 
2012-12-24]'::daterange)::timestamp, upper('[2012-09-01, 
2012-12-24]'::daterange)::timestamp, '1 day') as day 
postgres-#    WHERE EXTRACT(dow FROM day) BETWEEN 1 AND 5;
 count 
-------
    82
(1 row)


In cases where you have more complex calendars (like lists of bank holidays), 
you could join against a table of them, or use a function that determines 
whether or not a particular day is holiday or not.

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-- Christophe Pettus
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