Re: Problem with COPY and DateStyle

Never mind. I found out that pg_dump already does a SET datestyle =
'ISO' before dumping, so all the dates are in ISO format.

I just need to mention that COPY honors Datesyle.

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pgman wrote:
> I just found out that datestyle affects the output of COPY, and hence
> pg_dump:
>
> test=> create table test(x date);
> CREATE
> test=> insert into test values ('2001-07-31');
> INSERT 17239 1
> test=> set datestyle to 'postgres, dmy';
> SET
> test=> copy test to '/tmp/x';
> COPY
> test=> \!cat /tmp/x
> 31-07-2001
> test=> set datestyle to 'postgres, mdy';
> SET
> test=> copy test to '/tmp/x';
> COPY
> test=> \!cat /tmp/x
> 07-31-2001
>
> Should we set the datestyle at the top of pg_dump files like we do with
> encoding and other settings? Seems we should.
>
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