Re: ecmascript 5 DATESTYLE

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

Cc: Ben Hockey <neonstalwart@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2010-05-19T06:25:44Z

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2010/5/19 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>:
> On tis, 2010-05-18 at 18:26 -0400, Ben Hockey wrote:
>> ecmascript 5 is the most recent specification for JavaScript and i
>> would think that having a DATESTYLE format to simplify
>> interoperability with JavaScript applications would be highly
>> desirable.
>
> Note that we haven't got any other datestyles that are intended to
> support interoperability with some language.  It is usually the job of
> the client driver to convert PostgreSQL data (plural of datum) to the
> appropriate type and format for the client environment or language.  Is
> there any reason why JavaScript would be different?

JavaScript isn't special language, but JSON is wide used format for
interoperability. And same is true for XML datestyle format.

Regards
Pavel
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