Re: Sort by foreign date column - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Sort by foreign date column
Date
Msg-id 29326.998402949@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Sort by foreign date column  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
List pgsql-general
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andrey Y. Mosienko wrote:
> But in Russia we have the next date format: DD-MM-YYYY.

Just setting DateStyle to 'SQL' would get you approximately what you
want:

regression=# set DateStyle TO SQL;
SET VARIABLE
regression=# select now();
            now
----------------------------
 21/08/2001 10:07:04.00 EDT
(1 row)

regression=# select now()::date;
  ?column?
------------
 21/08/2001
(1 row)

If DD/MM/YYYY is not close enough for you, maybe the right answer is to
add another DateStyle.

            regards, tom lane

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