Re: to_char incompatibility - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: to_char incompatibility
Date
Msg-id 200801162122.m0GLMX023228@momjian.us
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In response to Re: to_char incompatibility  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: to_char incompatibility  ("Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> >   
> >> A further example shows that to_date seems to have little error checking 
> >> altogether:
> >>     
> >
> > Yeah, that's been one of the main knocks on that code since day one.
> > Somebody needs to spend a whole lot of time on it, and the original
> > author has left the project ...
> >
> >     
> >   
> 
> TODO list item?

We have something on hold for 8.4:
http://momjian.us/mhonarc/patches_hold/msg00319.html

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