Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B55632EF2 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 03:43:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 70602-02 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 06:42:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758EC632215 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 03:42:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9unO-0003BI-LN for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 08:42:54 +0200 Received: from 217.110.94.67 ([217.110.94.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2010 08:42:54 +0200 Received: from spam_eater by 217.110.94.67 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2010 08:42:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org connect(): No such file or directory From: Thomas Kellerer Subject: Re: How to get localized to_char(DATE) output Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 08:42:40 +0200 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <29894.1273099886@sss.pgh.pa.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.110.94.67 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: <29894.1273099886@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.746 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.164, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/16 X-Sequence-Number: 34064 Tom Lane, 06.05.2010 00:51: > Thomas Kellerer writes: >> I'm trying to get the output of the to_char(date, text) method in German but I can't get it to work: > > I think you need 'TMMon' to get a localized month name. > > regards, tom lane > Ah! Silly me. Now that you write this I can see it in the manual ;) The manual says the value for lc_time is OS dependent and indeed "set lc_time = 'German'" does not work on Solaris. Is there a way to get a list of allowed values for lc_time for a specific installation? Thanks for your help Thomas