Re: Postgres DateStyle - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ing. Roberto Andrade Fonseca
Subject Re: Postgres DateStyle
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.10.10007140948480.7878-100000@inter.interservice.com.mx
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In response to Re: Postgres DateStyle  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> (My mailer was fouled up; I had sent this a few days ago...)
>
> > > The documentation of Postgresql 7.0.2 says that the statement:
> > > SET DATESTYLE TO 'Postgres';
> > > would led to an output of the form:
> > > Wed Dec 17 07:37:16 1997 PST
> > > but I can't reproduce this behavior!!!
> >
> > lockhart=# select timestamp 'now';
> >          ?column?
> > ---------------------------
> >  2000-07-11 15:48:24.00+00
> > (1 row)
> >
> > lockhart=# set datestyle to 'Postgres';
> > SET VARIABLE
> > lockhart=# select timestamp 'now';
> >             ?column?
> > ---------------------------------
> >  Tue Jul 11 15:48:35.00 2000 UTC
> > (1 row)
> >
> > Please show a transcript of your session if you need some more
> > suggestions.

Thanks Thomas:

I was doing something stupid: my data type was date, not timestamp. That explained
my error.

Saludos,

Roberto Andrade Fonseca
randrade@abl.com.mx


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