Yes, I mentioned that I could use the to_date function, but as I said, that 
would involve a LOT of changes to a LOT of source code, which I'm trying to 
avoid. 

-Thanks 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> 
To: r...@iol.ie 
Cc: "Bernard Barton" <bf...@comcast.net>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org 
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:40:21 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format 

Hello 

use to_date function, please. 

postgres=# select to_date('10122008','DDMMYYYY'); 
to_date 
------------ 
2008-12-10 
(1 row) 

Time: 1,152 ms 
postgres=# 

regards 
Pavel Stehule 

2009/4/10 Raymond O'Donnell <r...@iol.ie>: 
> On 09/04/2009 23:56, Bernard Barton wrote: 
>> Today I tried every permutation of the DateStyle parameter I could find, and 
>> still cannot get PostgreSQL 8.3 to accept dates in the format mmddyyyy. I 
>> tried 
> 
> How exactly are you sending these values to the database? Straight SQL, 
> or some other mechanism? Can you show us some examples? 
> 
> Ray. 
> 
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