I suppose that would be possible, but maintaining date triggers + views across a large database would be a lot of work. I'm just one humble DBA and there is 15-20 devs
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 5:21 AM Paul Smith <paul@pscs.co.uk> wrote:
On 25/03/2021 12:38, Tim wrote: > Its a native ORACLE date formatting which shows like this: 08-JAN-99 > 04:05:06 set in the datestyle config param. > > Currently running on EDB Advanced Server 12 which allows it as a > datestyle configuration setting, but looking to migrate off of there > to native postgres pretty soon and was hoping there was some way to > have the same setting globally in native postgres. Which is starting > to look like is not possible. Could you create views/rules/triggers to do the conversions for you?
Eg, if you have a table 'invoices', then create a view 'invoices_' and set it to set your formatting, and use rules to allow updates/inserts via that view. That might need less changes to the code.
