Patch applied. Thanks.
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Oliver Elphick wrote:
> At present, dates are put into a dump in the format specified by the
> default datestyle. This is not portable between installations.
>
> This patch sets DATESTYLE to ISO at the start of a pg_dump, so that the
> dates written into the dump will be restorable onto any database,
> regardless of how its default datestyle is set.
>
> Index: pg_dump.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.317
> diff -u -r1.317 pg_dump.c
> --- pgsql-orig/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c 2003/02/13 04:54:16 1.317
> +++ pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c 2003/03/03 06:22:34
> @@ -546,6 +546,13 @@
> PQerrorMessage(g_conn));
> PQclear(res);
>
> + /* Set the datestyle to ISO to ensure the dump's portability */
> + res = PQexec(g_conn, "SET DATESTYLE = ISO");
> + if (!res || PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK)
> + exit_horribly(g_fout, NULL, "could not set datestyle to
> ISO: %s",
> + PQerrorMessage(g_conn));
> + PQclear(res);
> +
> /*
> * If supported, set extra_float_digits so that we can dump
> float data
> * exactly (given correctly implemented float I/O code, anyway)
>
>
>
> --
> Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
> Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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> John 13:34
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