Re: French date

Jean-Michel Chabanne wrote:
> evon600c wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Is there a simple way to configure the postgres server so that it
>> always understand the french date format 'dd/mm/yyyy' ?
>> Or is there a call i can perform in my client application that could
>> have the same effect ?
>>
>> I wish i had not to set some easy forgetable environment variables
>> such as LC_TIME.
>> For instance in SQL Server i was able to issue a "set dateformat
>> 'dmy'" in the begining of all my transactions to get it done and that
>> was fine for me (and my customers...)
>>
>> Many thank's in advance.
>
>
> Wen connected you may do SET DateStyle = 'SQL,European';
>
> Or, with pgsql, before the connection you may export the variable
> PGDATESTYLE='SQL,European'
>
> This should work fine, but I have noticed that it does not work on one
> of my DB and I don't know why.
>

Now I know why !!!

First I did in the first DB :

SET DateStyle = 'SQL,European';
Some SELECT queries ...

Then I changed the DB connection with " \c test ", but when I was
connected to test DB I had to type again SET DateStyle = 'SQL,European';

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