On 4/10/2013 6:15 AM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> psql (one of the possible client applications) uses the "datestyle"
> parameter to decide on how to format a date column when displaying it.
>
> If you change the "datestyle" parameter in postgresql.conf, it will
> influence the way psql displays the date values. Probably pgAdmin will
> also check that setting (as I don't use pgAdmin I can't really tell).
PSQL doesn't use that, postgres itself does. it can be set on the fly
with SET on a per-connection basis, or with ALTER DATABASE on a
per-database basis.
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