Never mind.  I found out that pg_dump already does a SET datestyle =
'ISO' before dumping, so all the dates are in ISO format.

I just need to mention that COPY honors Datesyle.

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pgman wrote:
> I just found out that datestyle affects the output of COPY, and hence
> pg_dump:
> 
>       test=> create table test(x date);
>       CREATE  
>       test=> insert into test values ('2001-07-31');
>       INSERT 17239 1
>       test=> set datestyle to 'postgres, dmy';
>       SET
>       test=> copy test to '/tmp/x';
>       COPY
>       test=> \!cat /tmp/x
>       31-07-2001
>       test=> set datestyle to 'postgres, mdy';
>       SET
>       test=> copy test to '/tmp/x';
>       COPY
>       test=> \!cat /tmp/x
>       07-31-2001
> 
> Should we set the datestyle at the top of pg_dump files like we do with
> encoding and other settings?   Seems we should.
> 
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