European date format option

Nigel Gilbert writes:

The online documentation for SET says:

Running postmaster using the option -o -e to set dates to the

^^^^^^^^^^

European convention.

but attempting to do this results in:

$ pg_ctl start -o -e

^^^^^^

postmaster successfully started
$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster: illegal option -- e
Try '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --help' for more information.

Is this a bug in postmaster or in the documentation? Is there a
workaround (I need all the dates for all connections to be in
DD-MM-YYYY format)?

That's not what you're going to get out of it anyway. ("European" is a
much too general term.) It's better not to rely in these settings.
Instead, explicitly format your values using the to_char() function.
(Set up a view or three if needed.)

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