Subject: [HACKERS] Patch: set date to euro/us postgres/iso/sql

  Here a patch that implements a SET date for use by the datetime
stuff. The syntax is

        SET date TO 'val[,val,...]'

  where val is us (us dates), euro (european dates), postgres,
iso or sql.

  Thomas is working on the integration in his datetime module.
I just needed to get the patch out before it went stale :)

Subject: [HACKERS] Patch: SET var TO 'val'

  Here is a patch that adds a "SET variable TO 'somevalue'" capability
to the parser, and then calls the SetPGVariable() function (which does
just issue a elog(NOTICE) to see whether it works).

  That's the framework for adding timezone/date format/language/...
stuff.