Re: [GENERAL] Date time insertion

dustin sallings wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, John Huttley wrote:
>
> None of this matters in a date field, date != datetime
>
> // I use '1999-04-21 21:23:21' type format with sucess.

> // >
> // >I am trying to insert both the date and the time into a datetime field.
> // >
> // >If the field datetime in table v1 is dt, then the following successfully
> // >inserts the date into the datetime field:
> // >
> // >insert into v1 (date) values ('19990401') ;
> // >
> // >However, if I also wanted to retain the time of day, the following does not
> // >work:
> // >
> // >insert into v1 (date) values ('199904011530') ;
> // >
> // >Any hints?

That's what the reference manual has to say :

There are several ways to affect the appearance of date/time types:

The PGDATESTYLE environment variable used by the backend directly
on postmaster startup.
The PGDATESTYLE environment variable used by the frontend libpq on
session startup.
SET DateStyle SQL command.

Chris
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