Re: Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format

[bfb21@xxxxxxxxxxx]

This is embedded SQL in a .pgc file.  You can see the "c_docket_date between :date1 and :date2" line in the select statement, which is where the dates are porcessed.  If I pass a date in the mm-dd-yyyy format it works.  However, the application I'm porting is all based on dates in the mmddyyyy format.

I'm 99% cerain that PostgreSQL will NOT support dates in the mmddyyyy format, unless you use the to_date function, which I'm trying to avoid.


        select
          c_jnum_prefix, c_jnum_seq, c_jnum_year, c_jnum_suffix, c_jnum_venue
          ,c_actkey, c_disp_cd
        into
          :prfx, :seq, :yr, :sfx, :ven, :actkey, :disp
        from
          c_records
        where
          c_jnum_prefix = :prfx
        and
          c_jnum_seq between :seq1 and :seq2
        and
          c_jnum_venue = :ven
        and
          c_docket_date between :date1 and :date2
        order by
          c_jnum_prefix,c_jnum_seq,c_jnum_year,
          c_jnum_suffix,c_jnum_venue;


----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond O'Donnell" <rod@xxxxxx>
To: "Bernard Barton" <bfb21@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:31:45 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Evidently no support for the mmddyyyy date format

On 09/04/2009 23:56, Bernard Barton wrote:
> Today I tried every permutation of the DateStyle parameter I could find, and
> still cannot get PostgreSQL 8.3 to accept dates in the format mmddyyyy.  I tried

How exactly are you sending these values to the database? Straight SQL,
or some other mechanism? Can you show us some examples?

Ray.

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