Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format
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 mmdd. 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. -- Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland r...@iol.ie Galway Cathedral Recitals: http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals -- -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format
Hello
use to_date function, please.
postgres=# select to_date('10122008','DDMM');
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 mmdd. 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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Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format
This is embedded SQL in a .pgc file. You can see the c_docket_date between :date1 and :date2 line in the select statement, which is where the dates are porcessed. If I pass a date in the mm-dd- format it works. However, the application I'm porting is all based on dates in the mmdd format. I'm 99% cerain that PostgreSQL will NOT support dates in the mmdd format, unless you use the to_date function, which I'm trying to avoid. select c_jnum_prefix, c_jnum_seq, c_jnum_year, c_jnum_suffix, c_jnum_venue ,c_actkey, c_disp_cd into :prfx, :seq, :yr, :sfx, :ven, :actkey, :disp from c_records where c_jnum_prefix = :prfx and c_jnum_seq between :seq1 and :seq2 and c_jnum_venue = :ven and c_docket_date between :date1 and :date2 order by c_jnum_prefix,c_jnum_seq,c_jnum_year, c_jnum_suffix,c_jnum_venue; - Original Message - From: Raymond O'Donnell r...@iol.ie To: Bernard Barton bf...@comcast.net Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:31:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmdd date format 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 mmdd. 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. -- Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland r...@iol.ie Galway Cathedral Recitals: http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals --
Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format
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
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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 mmdd date format
Hello
use to_date function, please.
postgres=# select to_date('10122008','DDMM');
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 mmdd. 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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r...@iol.ie
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Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format
2009/4/10 bf...@comcast.net:
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.
other solution is custom datatype. It isn't too much work, but it is
coding in C.
regards
Pavel Stehule
-Thanks
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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 mmdd date format
Hello
use to_date function, please.
postgres=# select to_date('10122008','DDMM');
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 mmdd.
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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r...@iol.ie
Galway Cathedral Recitals: http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals
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Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format
Pavel Stehule wrote: 2009/4/10 bf...@comcast.net: 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. other solution is custom datatype. It isn't too much work, but it is coding in C. Yep, that was my first idea too. You would copy an existing data type, and modify just the _input_ routine to handle input with no delimiters. I would simply add the delimiters and pass the string to the original input function; it really isn't that much work. The only downside is that you have to create/use a custom data type for this. -- Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.ushttp://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format
- bf...@comcast.net wrote: This is embedded SQL in a .pgc file. You can see the c_docket_date between :date1 and :date2 line in the select statement, which is where the dates are porcessed. If I pass a date in the mm-dd- format it works. However, the application I'm porting is all based on dates in the mmdd format. I'm 99% cerain that PostgreSQL will NOT support dates in the mmdd format, unless you use the to_date function, which I'm trying to avoid. select c_jnum_prefix, c_jnum_seq, c_jnum_year, c_jnum_suffix, c_jnum_venue ,c_actkey, c_disp_cd into :prfx, :seq, :yr, :sfx, :ven, :actkey, :disp from c_records where c_jnum_prefix = :prfx and c_jnum_seq between :seq1 and :seq2 and c_jnum_venue = :ven and c_docket_date between :date1 and :date2 order by c_jnum_prefix,c_jnum_seq,c_jnum_year, c_jnum_suffix,c_jnum_venue; I might be missing something, but could you not preprocess the :date1 and :date2 variables before passing them to the SQL code above. Adrian Klaver akla...@comcast.net -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
[GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format
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 mmdd. I tried setting this in the postgresql.conf file, and also in psql using set datestyle to style. So, am I correct to conclude that it is not possible to configure to accept dates on the mmdd format? I know I can probably use the to_date function, but this would involve changing a multitude of queries, which is what I'm trying to avoid. -Thanks -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
Re: [GENERAL] Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format
Bernard Barton bf...@comcast.net writes: 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 mmdd. I tried setting this in the postgresql.conf file, and also in psql using set datestyle to style. So, am I correct to conclude that it is not possible to configure to accept dates on the mmdd format? If you mean eightdigitswithoutanypunctuation, I think that's correct. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
