Re: Patch for SQL-Standard Interval output and decoupling DateStyle from IntervalStyle

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch for SQL-Standard Interval output and decoupling DateStyle from IntervalStyle
Date: 2008-11-08 02:56:48
Message-ID: 4914FFF0.8020102@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Ron Mayer wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> *pg_dump had better force Postgres mode*. We can certainly do that with
>> a couple more lines added to the patch, but it's a bit troublesome that
>> we are boxed into using a nonstandard dump-data format until forever.

Ok. I see that is the concern..

Rather than forcing Postgres mode; couldn't it put a
"set intervalstyle = [whatever the current interval style is]"
in the dump file?

That doesn't force us to using a nonstandard dump-data format (except
for the nonstandard "set intervalstyle" line).

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