On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 20:10 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I believe what is happening in the second case is that the query is
> getting re-parse-analyzed, from scratch, and since now datestyle is
> different (DMY not MDY), the date literal gets interpreted differently.
> You could argue it either way as to which result is "more correct",
> but I doubt we're going to try to do something about that. Best advice
> is to avoid ambiguous input, or if you can't, at least avoid flipping
> your datestyle on the fly.
I'm fine calling that "not a bug", though it appears to work in 8.3.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
