Re: HINT: Perhaps you need a different "datestyle" setting - postgresql

On Sunday, December 28, 2014 12:54:30 PM Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Hi
>
> try
>
> postgres=# set datestyle to DMY;
> SET
> postgres=# SELECT '19/08/2014'::date;
>     date
> ------------
>  2014-08-19
> (1 row)
>
> Postgres supports following styles only:
>
> DEFAULT      EUROPEAN     ISO          NONEUROPEAN  SQL
> YMD
> DMY          GERMAN       MDY          POSTGRES     US
>
> or more exactly:
>
> postgres=# set datestyle to SQL,DMY;
> SET
> postgres=# SELECT '19/08/2014'::date;
>     date
> ------------
>  19/08/2014
> (1 row)
>
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-datetime.html

Thanks for the link. I was following this -
http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/19679/how-to-set-postgresql-database-to-see-date-as-mdy-permanently. This
actuallylead me to those combinations  
that I had already tried.

Now I have another problem:

prac_db=# SET datestyle = "SQL, DMY";
SET
prac_db=# copy orders from '/home/arup/postgresql/order.csv' with CSV
DELIMITER ',' HEADER ;
ERROR:  time zone displacement out of range: " 9-25 AM"
CONTEXT:  COPY orders, line 2, column delivery_time: " 9-25 AM"
prac_db=#

=======
ERROR:  time zone displacement out of range: " 9-25 AM"
=======

How to fix this ?

prac_db=# \d orders ;
                                         Table "public.orders"
      Column      |          Type          |                         Modifiers
------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------
 order_id         | integer                | not null default
nextval('orders_order_id_seq'::regclass)
 delivery_address | text                   |
 order_date       | date                   |
 delivery_date    | date                   |
 status           | text                   |
 delivery_time    | time without time zone |
 courier_id       | integer                |
Indexes:
    "orders_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (order_id)

\d: extra argument ";" ignored
prac_db=#


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