Why does this work? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ian Harding
Subject Why does this work?
Date
Msg-id 725602300706151156s5728b95es857de981e8aaa47b@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Why does this work?  (Rodrigo De León <rdeleonp@gmail.com>)
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I accidentally formatted a string for tsearch before trying to cast it
to a date, and it worked!

 select 'June&15&2007'::date
    date
------------
 2007-06-15
(1 row)

Is this a happy accident, or is it OK to count on it continuing to
work this way?

Thanks,

Ian

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