Re: datestyle setting

On Wednesday 09 Mar 2005 11:57 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(at)thenilgiris(dot)com> writes:
> > i have a website with a postgresql backend. Being a shared site,
> > i have no root access. i do have shell access to the database,
> > but cannot create or drop the database. I access the database
> > through python scripts using the psycopg adapter. My question is,
> > how do i set the pgdatestyle in the database as 'European,sql'?
>
> If it's a reasonably recent version of PG, either ALTER DATABASE
> SET or ALTER USER SET might serve.

postgresql 7.4. when i type:

alter database set datestyle to 'European'

i get 'syntax error at or near "datestyle" at character 20'
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