Re: Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() to accept localized names - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2020-01-28 04:05, Mark Dilger wrote:
>> German uses both Sonnabend and Samstag for Saturday, so don’t you have to compare to a list of values anyway?

> Yeah, good point.  If it doesn't accept both "Sonnabend" and "Samstag",
> then it's not really usable.

If we're going to insist on that, then the entire patch is junk.
Indeed, I don't even know where we could get the knowledge of which
name(s) to accept, because strftime is surely only going to tell us
one of them.

            regards, tom lane