Calculate closest working day in Postgres

Question

I need to schedule some items in a postgres query based on a requested delivery date for an order. So for example, the order has a requested delivery on a Monday (20120319

Answer 1

CREATE TABLE Holidays (Holiday, PrecedingBusinessDay) AS VALUES
  ('2012-12-25'::DATE, '2012-12-24'::DATE),
  ('2012-12-26'::DATE, '2012-12-24'::DATE);
SELECT Day, COALESCE(PrecedingBusinessDay, PrecedingMondayToFriday)
FROM
  (SELECT Day, Day - CASE DATE_PART('DOW', Day)
                         WHEN 0 THEN 2
                         WHEN 1 THEN 3
                         ELSE 1
                     END AS PrecedingMondayToFriday
   FROM TestDays) AS PrecedingMondaysToFridays
LEFT JOIN Holidays ON PrecedingMondayToFriday = Holiday;

You might want to rename some of the identifiers :-).