> > > I vote for changing default date format to ISO-8601 to reflect
> > Hear! Hear! Good standards beat silly conventions any day!
> Seems that you don't like conventions Tom, but you want
> that all world use dates with American format.
> Seems that you want impose one convention.
> We're working with a database which name is PostgreSQL.
> I suppose that you know what's mean the last 3 letters.
Uh, Jose', he was agreeing with you :))
Anyway, imo the only issue is _when_ this kind of change should take
place. My comment in the documentation did not promise that it would
change in the next release, only that it might change in a future
release. btw, I don't think that the ISO date style is mandated by the
SQL92 standard, but it does seem like a good idea, particularly as we
approach y2k...
Of course, since we now have the PGDATESTYLE environment variable,
usable by both the backend (at startup) and libpq (at connect time),
perhaps a change in default date format is not something to worry about
too much.
I haven't heard any negative comments (yet) about changing the default
date format to ISO-8601 (yyyy-mm-dd). Does anyone have a strong feeling
that this should _not_ happen for v6.4??
Speak up or it might happen ;)
- Tom
