Re: Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format

This is embedded SQL in a .pgc file. You can see the "c_docket_date between :date1 and :date2" line in the select statement, which is where the dates are porcessed. If I pass a date in the mm-dd-yyyy format it works. However, the application I'm porting is all based on dates in the mmddyyyy format.

I'm 99% cerain that PostgreSQL will NOT support dates in the mmddyyyy format, unless you use the to_date function, which I'm trying to avoid.

select
c_jnum_prefix, c_jnum_seq, c_jnum_year, c_jnum_suffix, c_jnum_venue
,c_actkey, c_disp_cd
into
:prfx, :seq, :yr, :sfx, :ven, :actkey, :disp
from
c_records
where
c_jnum_prefix = :prfx
and
c_jnum_seq between :seq1 and :seq2
and
c_jnum_venue = :ven
and
c_docket_date between :date1 and :date2
order by
c_jnum_prefix,c_jnum_seq,c_jnum_year,
c_jnum_suffix,c_jnum_venue;

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond O'Donnell" <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: "Bernard Barton" <bfb21(at)comcast(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:31:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format

On 09/04/2009 23:56, Bernard Barton wrote:
> Today I tried every permutation of the DateStyle parameter I could find, and
> still cannot get PostgreSQL 8.3 to accept dates in the format mmddyyyy. I tried

How exactly are you sending these values to the database? Straight SQL,
or some other mechanism? Can you show us some examples?

Ray.

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