Re: ecmascript 5 DATESTYLE

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ben Hockey <neonstalwart@gmail.com> wrote:
>> i know its been over a year without any activity on this thread but did
>> anything ever come of this? �i'd really like to be able to get dates to
>> match the format specified for date time strings in ecmascript 5. �a generic
>> way to specify the format would be ideal if it can be done securely. �has
>> there been other threads discussing this more recently?

> Not to my knowledge, though I don't read pgsql-general.  I think this
> is the sort of thing that really only gets done if someone cares
> enough about it to settle down and put together a detailed design
> proposal, get consensus, and write a patch.  IOW, it's unlikely that
> anyone else will do this for you, but you can certainly make a try at
> doing it yourself, and get help from others along the way.

TBH, I think that inventing a new datestyle setting "ECMA" would be a
more appropriate investment of effort.  Generic format strings sound
like a nightmare.  Maybe I've just been turned off by the
to_date/to_char mess, but I'm very down on the idea of anything like
that propagating into the main datetime I/O code.
        regards, tom lane