Re: Sort by foreign date column

From: "Andrey Y(dot) Mosienko" <feo(at)ttn(dot)ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Postgres <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Sort by foreign date column
Date: 2001-08-22 04:26:55
Message-ID: 3B83348F.9F7D312E@ttn.ru
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andrey Y. Mosienko wrote:
> > But in Russia we have the next date format: DD-MM-YYYY.
>
> Just setting DateStyle to 'SQL' would get you approximately what you
> want:
>
> regression=# set DateStyle TO SQL;
> SET VARIABLE
> regression=# select now();
> now
> ----------------------------
> 21/08/2001 10:07:04.00 EDT
> (1 row)
>
> regression=# select now()::date;
> ?column?
> ------------
> 21/08/2001
> (1 row)
>
> If DD/MM/YYYY is not close enough for you, maybe the right answer is to
> add another DateStyle.

Sorry for disturbing, but how can I do this or where is it in documentation?

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