Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On Thursday 05 March 2009 00:19:02 Daniel Verite wrote:
> SET DATESTYLE takes predefined keywords such as ISO or US as
arguments,
> but I can't find a way to specify a custom format string for
> timestamps.
There is no support for that.
> What I'd like to find is an equivalent to Oracle's
> ALTER SESSION SET nls_date_format='DD/MM/YYYY HH24' for example,
> where the format follows the sames rules than to_char and to_date.
> This sets an implicit format for every subsequent text<->date
> conversion.
... or that.
I think it would valuable to have at least a default format that
doesn't include the sub-second precision, since it typically adds 7
characters that enlarge output columns in a way that is generally
useless to the human eyes. Do other users agree with that?
Best regards,
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Daniel
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