Re: to get DD-MM-YYYY format of data

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Penchalaiah P(dot)" <penchalaiahp(at)infics(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: to get DD-MM-YYYY format of data
Date: 2006-08-22 13:27:05
Message-ID: 20060822132705.GL14368@alvh.no-ip.org
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Penchalaiah P. wrote:

> I am using date is data type to one of the field in my table....but when
> ever I am passing values to that field it is taking yyy-mm-dd format..
>
> But I don't want like that .. I need like this DD-MM-YYYY.. for this wt
> I have to do...

Read the documentation on the "DateStyle" parameter, noticing that it
controls two things at once, input and output of dates.

You may also use to_char() or extract() to format the date manually
without messing with the configuration.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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