On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com> wrote:
> HEAD actually gets this one wrong; in defiance of the documentation it
> returns 2000-09-07. So, it seems to me that the patch shifts the
> behaviour in the right direction.
>
> Barring actually teaching the code that some nodes (like YYYY) can
> take an open-ended number of characters, while others (like MM) must
> take an exact number of characters, I'm not sure what can be done to
> improve this. Perhaps something for a later patch?
Sound good to me and I would probably argue that things like MM should
not be hard coded to take only 2 chars...
But then again to play devils advocate I can just as easily do things
like to_char(...) + '30 months'::interval;
