In response to Andrus : > >You might be able to get what you want with the to_char() function, > >if setting datestyle doesn't do the trick for you. > > setting datestyle changes style for whole sql statement. > > How to get this in a single conversion in sql statement so that other > expressions in same sql statement are not affected. > > to_char() requires hard-coded format. > Different servers have different locales so that format is not know at > application design time. > > How to get localized date for single conversion inside SELECT statement so > that it works in different server lc_time settings ? As Tom said, you can use to_char(): test=*# show lc_time; lc_time ------------- en_US.UTF-8 (1 row) test=*# select to_char(current_date, 'TMDay - TMMonth - YYYY'); to_char ------------------------- Monday - January - 2010 (1 row) test=*# set lc_time = 'de_DE.UTF-8'; SET test=*# select to_char(current_date, 'TMDay - TMMonth - YYYY'); to_char ------------------------ Montag - Januar - 2010 (1 row) Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG: 0x31720C99, 1006 CCB4 A326 1D42 6431 2EB0 389D 1DC2 3172 0C99 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general