Re: [HACKERS] adding an immutable variant of to_date - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [HACKERS] adding an immutable variant of to_date
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYprS4c-kT7CJu5W5en2Q39Mf92E1xRt3MPj0Ro29uHug@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] adding an immutable variant of to_date  ("Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] adding an immutable variant of to_date  ("Sven R. Kunze" <srkunze@mail.de>)
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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:
>> 2) As far as I can tell from reading the code to_date currently ignores
>> the M suffix which indicates that you want localized month/day names, so i
>> guess that to_date is currently immutable. Maybe it is stable due to the
>> idea that we may want to support the M suffix in the future.
>
> I think that's the case.

The commit message for 64353640e87b54250f1b8a1d2a708d270dff4bfd has
some interesting perspective on this.

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Robert Haas
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