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To: Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net>
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Subject: Re: Date Anomaly?? 
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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