Custom datestyle for timestamps

On Thursday 05 March 2009 00:19:02 Daniel Verite wrote:

SET DATESTYLE takes predefined keywords such as ISO or US as arguments,
but I can't find a way to specify a custom format string for
timestamps.

There is no support for that.

What I'd like to find is an equivalent to Oracle's
ALTER SESSION SET nls_date_format='DD/MM/YYYY HH24' for example,
where the format follows the sames rules than to_char and to_date.
This sets an implicit format for every subsequent text<->date
conversion.

... or that.

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

On Thursday 05 March 2009 00:19:02 Daniel Verite wrote:

SET DATESTYLE takes predefined keywords such as ISO or US as

arguments,

but I can't find a way to specify a custom format string for
timestamps.

There is no support for that.

What I'd like to find is an equivalent to Oracle's
ALTER SESSION SET nls_date_format='DD/MM/YYYY HH24' for example,
where the format follows the sames rules than to_char and to_date.
This sets an implicit format for every subsequent text<->date
conversion.

... or that.

I think it would valuable to have at least a default format that
doesn't include the sub-second precision, since it typically adds 7
characters that enlarge output columns in a way that is generally
useless to the human eyes. Do other users agree with that?

Best regards,
--
Daniel

"Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org> writes:

I think it would valuable to have at least a default format that
doesn't include the sub-second precision, since it typically adds 7
characters that enlarge output columns in a way that is generally
useless to the human eyes. Do other users agree with that?

If you think it's useless, just store your timestamps in a timestamp(0)
column.

regards, tom lane