RE: non-us datestyle

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Cedar Cox [mailto:cedarc@visionforisrael.com]
> Enviado el: miercoles, 04 de julio de 2001 16:48
> Para: Oscar Serrano
> CC: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
> Asunto: RE: [INTERFACES] non-us datestyle
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Oscar Serrano wrote:
> > 
> > > -----Mensaje original-----
> > > De: pgsql-interfaces-owner@postgresql.org
> > > [mailto:pgsql-interfaces-owner@postgresql.org]En nombre de Cedar Cox
> > > Enviado el: miercoles, 04 de julio de 2001 14:53
> > > Para: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
> > > Asunto: [INTERFACES] non-us datestyle
> > >
> > > Is there a way to set the default date style to non-US (European)?  I
> > > didn't see any compile or run time options, just per 
> connection options.
> > > (pg v1.7)
> > >
> > > -Cedar
> > 
> > Well I'm not sure if you are asking for this but...
> > If you define the shell variable PGDATESTYLE to, for example, 
> SQL, all date
> > are returned like this:
> > dd/mm/yyyy
> > There are serveral values you can assign to PGDATESTYLE.
> > You can execute, prior to a query this sentence:
> > SET DATESTYLE TO SQL
> 
> I'll be using ODBC so there's no shell variable to set...  This is why I
> want a global option.

But, have you tried it?
Beacuse I use DBI from a windows machine with ActivePerl and it works.

Oscar Serrano.




> -Cedar
> 
>