Re: Can I get Postgresql ODBC to accept ODBC Timestamp escape sequences?

--- "Hamlen, Peter" <peter(dot)hamlen(at)teachforamerica(dot)org>
wrote:

> summary: Can I get the ODBC driver to accept
> timestamps formatted like {ts 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss'}
> ?
>
> Basically I have a windows application that uses
> standard ODBC timestamp escape sequences. An ODBC
> timestamp escape sequence looks like this: {ts
> 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss'}
> A good url to explain this is here:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/acdata/ac_8_con_03_04l0.asp
> (Yes, it's a Microsoft website but it's talking
> about ODBC... :)
>
> The 7.03.02 driver just passes the timestamp string
> directly to postgres (running 7.3.4 on Linux) -
> which unsurprisingly doesn't recognize it. It

What makes you think so?
jeck=# select '2004-08-31 10:09:00'::timestamp;
timestamptz
------------------------
2004-08-31 10:09:00-05
(1 row)

> doesn't seem to be an option to change the windows
> application (it's a 3rd-party tool called Scribe)
> -so I'm hoping that there's a way to change the
> Postgres ODBC driver so it recognizes the format.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone experienced
> this problem before? As cliched as it is, this is a
> really important problem that I have to solve - and
> I'd appreciate any suggestions that might make this
> work. I've searched the archives and google but
> haven't come up with anything yet.
>
> Peter Hamlen
>
>

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