Re: Creating redwood datestyle in Postgres 12

I suppose that would be possible, but maintaining date triggers + views
across a large database would be a lot of work. I'm just one humble DBA and
there is 15-20 devs

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 5:21 AM Paul Smith <paul(at)pscs(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:

> On 25/03/2021 12:38, Tim wrote:
> > Its a native ORACLE date formatting which shows like this: 08-JAN-99
> > 04:05:06 set in the datestyle config param.
> >
> > Currently running on EDB Advanced Server 12 which allows it as a
> > datestyle configuration setting, but looking to migrate off of there
> > to native postgres pretty soon and was hoping there was some way to
> > have the same setting globally in native postgres. Which is starting
> > to look like is not possible.
> Could you create views/rules/triggers to do the conversions for you?
>
> Eg, if you have a table 'invoices', then create a view 'invoices_' and
> set it to set your formatting, and use rules to allow updates/inserts
> via that view. That might need less changes to the code.
>
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