The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>> We support enough datestyle variants already that it's hard to believe
>> there isn't one that will meet your needs. But if not, I think adding
>> an "Informix" datestyle option might be considered reasonable.
> Isn't Thomas trying to reduce the number of variants?
He wants to eliminate the essentially-duplicate datatypes, but I didn't
think he was proposing eliminating any datestyle functionality...
there would be squawks if he did, methinks...
regards, tom lane