Re: TODO item:Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() accept localized month names

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Gevik Babakhani <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TODO item:Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() accept localized month names
Date: 2008-02-05 01:59:25
Message-ID: 20080205015925.GO16380@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Gevik Babakhani" <pgdev(at)xs4all(dot)nl> writes:
> >> Surely it should be the inverse of the solution for output,
> >> eg TMMon selects localized input.
>
> > Of cource. But how would TM enforce a localized formatting. (perhaps I am
> > off.... 2:10 am...)
> > Lets say I have en_US database but the dates I am trying to format is nl_NL.
> > If I am not mistaking SET LC_MESSAGES won't help.
>
> Works for me:

Nevertheless, I think there's something interesting missing here, which
is a sort of strftime's %c format string.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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