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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net>
Cc: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
Cc: Postgres SQL List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Date Anomaly??
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 12:13:05 -0400
Message-ID: <27677.1052323985@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net> writes:
> Bottom line: there is no way to return a MM-DD-YYYY value?

Certainly:

regression=# set DateStyle TO postgresql,us;
SET
regression=# select 'today'::date;
    date
------------
 05-07-2003
(1 row)

Perhaps you are confused by the difference between timestamp and date?

			regards, tom lane




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