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From Gevik Babakhani
Subject about date/time parser
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Msg-id 009001c8747a$27bcb5d0$0a01a8c0@gevmus
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Responses Re: about date/time parser  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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regarding http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00826.php

I was wondering why we have a custom written parser to parse the date/time
from/to string and vice versa?
Is there a historical reason? Would a yacc/lex parser be better?

Regards,
Gevik 



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