Re: changing datestyle

> I did a rebuild, after editing ./src/backend/utils/init/globals.c
> to say:       int           DateStyle = USE_POSTGRES_DATES;
>
> It wasn't too tough to shutdown the server, do a make/make install
> and restart but your solution is definitely more elegant.
> I am going to hack my apache conf files on the other machines here
> running pg7.

I did the same thing (changed globals.c).  It seems more elegant because
only one place had to change to affect the entire system across multiple
servers, environments and programming languages.