"Andrey Y. Mosienko" wrote:
>
> Stephan Szabo wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andrey Y. Mosienko wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I have table with date type column:
> > >
> > > chdate date;
> > >
> > > SELECT chdate from mytable;
> > >
> > >chdate
> > > 1999-01-02
> > >
> > > But in Russia we hav
and how about this:
SELECT TO_CHAR(chdate, 'DD-MM-')
FROM mytable
ORDER BY chdate::date;
>From: Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Andrey Y. Mosienko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Postgres
><[EMAI
omid omoomi wrote:
>
> and how about this:
>
> SELECT TO_CHAR(chdate, 'DD-MM-')
> FROM mytable
> ORDER BY chdate::date;
Yes, but Andrey says that the chdate field is declared as a date:
> > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andrey Y. Mosienko wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I have table with dat
Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andrey Y. Mosienko wrote:
> > But in Russia we have the next date format: DD-MM-.
>
> Just setting DateStyle to 'SQL' would get you approximately what you
> want:
>
> regression=# set DateStyle TO SQL;
> SET VARIABLE
> regression=# select now();
>
"Andrey Y. Mosienko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If DD/MM/ is not close enough for you, maybe the right answer is to
>> add another DateStyle.
> Sorry for disturbing, but how can I do this or where is it in documentation?
It's not documented; you'd have to dig into the code and see how th
