Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From scott.marlowe
Subject Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0306191034570.7420-100000@css120.ihs.com
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In response to Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca> writes:
> > Shouldn't dates be validated using the *LOCALE setting and not try to
> > guess?
>
> It would make sense to offer a "strict" mode in which the date order
> has to be what DateStyle suggests.  I'm astonished that no one seems
> to get the point that there are also good uses for "lax" parsing.

Which are?  Honestly, I see no good use for the lax parsing.


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