Re: Auto-formatting timestamps?

Why not create a view?

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Peter Koczan <pjkoczan(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm undergoing a port from an old Sybase database to Postgres. It's
> going surprisingly well, but I have a question regarding formatting of
> timestamps.
>
> In Sybase, we get:
> :> select date from checkoutdate;
> date
> 'May 1 2001 12:00AM'
> ...
>
> In Postgres:
> => select date from checkoutdate;
> date
> ---------------------
> 2001-05-01 00:00:00
> ...
>
> I can properly format it using to_char:
> => select to_char(date, 'Mon DD YYYY HH:MIAM') as date from checkoutdate;
> date
> ---------------------
> May 01 2001 12:00AM
> ...
>
> Short of creating a wrapper type for timestamp (which seems like
> overkill just for modifying the output function), is there a way to
> output the Sybase format automatically (i.e. without a call to
> to_char)?
>
> I've found some code that actually somewhat depends on this format,
> and one of my goals in this port is to change as little client code as
> possible. Is it possible to automatically change the output like this,
> preferably on a per-connection basis? I found stuff regarding the
> datestyle parameter in the docs, but that doesn't quite do what I'd
> like.
>
> Thanks much,
> Peter
>
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