Re: Determining the DATE format with libpq

I appologize for my poor English...
I was just wondering about the overhead of a call to PQparameterStatus().
After some tests, it appears to be minor.
Anyway, thanks for your help!
Seb

On 08/24/2017 05:44 PM, Sebastien FLAESCH wrote:
> Whoooooo that's perfect!!!
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> I hope it has not a big cost?
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> Can I use this each time I fetch a result set?
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> Even row by row with a server cursor?
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> Seb
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> On 08/24/2017 05:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Sebastien FLAESCH <sf(at)4js(dot)com> writes:
>>> Is there a way to know the current date format used in the SQL session?
>>> Ideally, we expect a libpq API.
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>> Use PQparameterStatus().
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>>> We cannot do a "SHOW DateStyle" each time we executing a SELECT!
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>> You don't have to --- the server automatically reports changes in the
>> value of that parameter.
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>> regards, tom lane
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