Re: to_timestamp() and quarters - Mailing list pgsql-general

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: to_timestamp() and quarters
Date
Msg-id 20100302151529.GC25194@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Re: to_timestamp() and quarters  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: to_timestamp() and quarters  (Asher Hoskins <asher@piceur.co.uk>)
List pgsql-general
In response to Tom Lane :
> Asher Hoskins <asher@piceur.co.uk> writes:
> > I can't seem to get to_timestamp() or to_date() to work with quarters,
>
> The source code says
>
>                  * We ignore Q when converting to date because it is not
>                  * normative.
>                  *
>                  * We still parse the source string for an integer, but it
>                  * isn't stored anywhere in 'out'.
>

Ouch, sound like MySQL / myisam: we accept things like foreign key, but
we don't implement that...

+1 for raise an error or something, but no 'accept & ignore'.


Andreas
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