<para>

In addition, the DATE type can be handled in the same way. The

program has to include <filename>pg_types_date.h</filename>, declare a host variable

program has to include <filename>pgtypes_date.h</filename>, declare a host variable

as the date type and convert a DATE value into a text form using

<function>PGTYPESdate_to_asc()</function> function. For more details about the

pgtypes library functions, see <xref linkend="ecpg-pgtypes">.