Re: BUG #16419: wrong parsing BC year in to_date() function - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #16419: wrong parsing BC year in to_date() function
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Msg-id 892062.1601491831@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #16419: wrong parsing BC year in to_date() function  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: BUG #16419: wrong parsing BC year in to_date() function  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:11:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm, I read your reference to "the release notes" as suggesting that
>> we should change it only in a major release, ie HEAD only (and it
>> looks like David read it the same).  If you meant minor release notes,
>> then we're on the same page.

> Yes, I was thinking just the major release notes.  What are you
> suggesting, and what did you ultimately decide to do?  What I didn't
> want to do was to document the old behavior in the old docs and change
> it in PG 14.

Actually, I was just finishing up back-patching the patch I posted
yesterday.  I think we should just fix it, not document that it's
broken.

            regards, tom lane



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