From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@thenilgiris.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL SQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: datestyle setting
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:51:25 +0530
Message-ID: <200503091251.25413.lawgon@thenilgiris.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20765.1110349646@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <200503091135.55033.lawgon@thenilgiris.com>
<20765.1110349646@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On Wednesday 09 Mar 2005 11:57 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@thenilgiris.com> writes:
> > i have a website with a postgresql backend. Being a shared site,
> > i have no root access. i do have shell access to the database,
> > but cannot create or drop the database. I access the database
> > through python scripts using the psycopg adapter. My question is,
> > how do i set the pgdatestyle in the database as 'European,sql'?
>
> If it's a reasonably recent version of PG, either ALTER DATABASE
> SET or ALTER USER SET might serve.
postgresql 7.4. when i type:
alter database set datestyle to 'European'
i get 'syntax error at or near "datestyle" at character 20'
--
regards
kg
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