Bring in a patch from Keith Parks to move the use of European dates

from a #define to a run-time option '-e'

Man page was updated to reflect new option

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/man/postgres.1 b/src/man/postgres.1
index 09767c52c7e..940e1822f9f 100644
--- a/src/man/postgres.1
+++ b/src/man/postgres.1
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .\" This is -*-nroff-*-
 .\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here....
-.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/postgres.1,v 1.4 1996/12/11 22:58:14 momjian Exp $
+.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/postgres.1,v 1.5 1997/01/26 15:32:20 scrappy Exp $
 .TH POSTGRES95 UNIX 12/08/96 Postgres95 Postgres95
 .SH NAME
 postgres \(em the Postgres backend server
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ filedes]
 [\c
 .BR "-Q"
 ]
+[\c
+.BR "-e"
+]
 .br
 [\c
 .BR "-d"
@@ -78,9 +81,6 @@ has allocated for the backend server processes that it starts.  If the
 backend is running standalone, this specifies the number of buffers to
 allocate.  This value defaults to 64.
 .TP
-.BR "-E"
-Echo all queries.
-.TP
 .BR "-F"
 Disable automatic fsync() call after each transaction.
 This option improves performance, but an operating system crash
@@ -96,6 +96,26 @@ useful for interactive use.
 .BR "-Q"
 Specifies \*(lqquiet\*(rq mode.
 .TP
+.BR "-E"
+Echo all queries.
+.TP
+.BR "-e"
+The
+.IR "-e"
+option controls how dates are input to and output from the database.
+.IP
+If the
+.IR "-e"
+option is supplied, then all dates passed to and from the frontend
+processes will be assumed to be in
+.IR "European"
+format ie.
+.IR "DD-MM-YYYY"
+otherwise dates are input and output in
+.IR "American"
+format ie.
+.IR "MM-DD-YYYY"
+.TP
 .BR "-d" " debug_level"
 Turns on debugging at the numeric level
 .IR "debug_level" .