From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Ben Hockey <neonstalwart(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mike Fowler <mike(at)mlfowler(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: ecmascript 5 DATESTYLE |
Date: | 2011-12-06 20:15:55 |
Message-ID: | 14572.1323202555@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ben Hockey <neonstalwart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> i know its been over a year without any activity on this thread but did
>> anything ever come of this? i'd really like to be able to get dates to
>> match the format specified for date time strings in ecmascript 5. a generic
>> way to specify the format would be ideal if it can be done securely. has
>> there been other threads discussing this more recently?
> Not to my knowledge, though I don't read pgsql-general. I think this
> is the sort of thing that really only gets done if someone cares
> enough about it to settle down and put together a detailed design
> proposal, get consensus, and write a patch. IOW, it's unlikely that
> anyone else will do this for you, but you can certainly make a try at
> doing it yourself, and get help from others along the way.
TBH, I think that inventing a new datestyle setting "ECMA" would be a
more appropriate investment of effort. Generic format strings sound
like a nightmare. Maybe I've just been turned off by the
to_date/to_char mess, but I'm very down on the idea of anything like
that propagating into the main datetime I/O code.
regards, tom lane
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