psql patch for datestyle

At present, dates are put into a dump in the format specified by the
default datestyle. This is not portable between installations.

This patch sets DATESTYLE to ISO at the start of a pg_dump, so that the
dates written into the dump will be restorable onto any database,
regardless of how its default datestyle is set.

Index: pg_dump.c
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c,v
retrieving revision 1.317
diff -u -r1.317 pg_dump.c
--- pgsql-orig/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c 2003/02/13 04:54:16 1.317
+++ pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c 2003/03/03 06:22:34
@@ -546,6 +546,13 @@
PQerrorMessage(g_conn));
PQclear(res);

+ /* Set the datestyle to ISO to ensure the dump's portability */
+ res = PQexec(g_conn, "SET DATESTYLE = ISO");
+ if (!res || PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK)
+ exit_horribly(g_fout, NULL, "could not set datestyle to
ISO: %s",
+ PQerrorMessage(g_conn));
+ PQclear(res);
+
/*
* If supported, set extra_float_digits so that we can dump
float data
* exactly (given correctly implemented float I/O code, anyway)

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Oliver Elphick Oliver(dot)Elphick(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk
Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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