Re: [INTERFACES] Access'97 and ODBC - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: [INTERFACES] Access'97 and ODBC
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Msg-id 3545ECD6.5615904D@sid.trust.ee
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In response to Re: [INTERFACES] Access'97 and ODBC  ("Jose' Soares Da Silva" <sferac@bo.nettuno.it>)
Responses Re: [INTERFACES] Access'97 and ODBC
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Jose' Soares Da Silva wrote:
>
> I have a table with field1 DATE and field2 TIMESTAMP. If I insert data
> into these fields, field2 looks OK, but Access97 show me a strange
> date on field1.
>
> This is Access97 output:
>                  field1: 27/7/99
>                  field2: 1998-04-27 12:20:21+02
>
> This is psql output:
>                  Field | Value
>                  -- RECORD 0 --
>                  field1| 1998-04-27
>                  field2| 1998-04-27 12:20:21+02
> ----
> PS: My DateStyle is setting to 'ISO'

You should set it to 'US' when using Insight ODBC drivers.

It should affect the output in no way, but the driver expects it from
the backend in US format. As this is a per-connection setting it can
safely be set from the driver at startup without affecting other
connections.

There has been some discussion about 'fixing' it and making the
driver recognize other date formats. That would be IMHO unnecessary.
It should be enough just to do "SET DateStyle TO 'US';" at startup.

This can be currently done by setting some registry entries, but
this should really be just a part of driver startup.

Hannu

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