Re: Mixed locales and date formatting

On 11/14/2013 08:19 AM, Vincent Veyron wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> Using databases with different locales on the same cluster, I am trying
> to have Postgresql display the date in the locale format of each
> database.
>
> I found the TM prefix :
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/functions-formatting.html#FUNCTIONS-FORMATTING-DATETIMEMOD-TABLE
>
> However, using this will format dates according to the server's lc_time
> parameter (fr_FR@euro in my case) and ignore the database's locale.
>
> Is there a way to have the same code display 'Novembre' when connected
> to the fr_FR database and 'November' when connected to the en_US one?
>
>
> Here is a test case :
>
> createdb default_locale
> createdb english_locale --locale en_US.iso885915 --template=template0
>
> output of psql -l :
>
> default_locale | vincent      | LATIN9   | fr_FR@euro      | fr_FR@euro      |
> english_locale | vincent      | LATIN9   | en_US.iso885915 | en_US.iso885915 |
>

ALTER DATABASE english_locale SET lc_time='en_US.iso885915';


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