Re: BUG #5714: TZ pattern error on to_timestamp - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #5714: TZ pattern error on to_timestamp
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Msg-id 9820.1287329331@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #5714: TZ pattern error on to_timestamp  (hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>)
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hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Testing shows that that example fails in every Postgres release back to
>> 7.1.  The spelling of the error message varies a bit, but they all agree
>> that a TZ format spec isn't supported.

> Any reason why Pg can't parse TZ?

Nobody's bothered to do the work ...

> perhaps it should be also listed in
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/functions-formatting.html
> doc, that you can't use TZ (and some other patterns too)?

Nobody's bothered to do the work for that, either.

            regards, tom lane

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