Re: Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format
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In response to Re: Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format  (Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie>)
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Hello

use to_date function, please.

postgres=# select to_date('10122008','DDMMYYYY');
  to_date
------------
 2008-12-10
(1 row)

Time: 1,152 ms
postgres=#

regards
Pavel Stehule

2009/4/10 Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie>:
> On 09/04/2009 23:56, Bernard Barton wrote:
>> Today I tried every permutation of the DateStyle parameter I could find, and
>> still cannot get PostgreSQL 8.3 to accept dates in the format mmddyyyy.  I tried
>
> How exactly are you sending these values to the database? Straight SQL,
> or some other mechanism? Can you show us some examples?
>
> Ray.
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