On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> > The one thing that should absolutely be turned off is day/month swapping
> > on dates of the form: 2003-02-22.
>
> Agreed on that. YYYY-DD-MM isn't used in the real world AFAIK, and it's
> reasonable to treat it as an error.
>
> > I've seen little actual defense of the current behaviour,
>
> Other than me, I think you mean. dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy are
> inherently ambiguous in the real world, and when you can clearly
> determine what the intended meaning is, I think it's more reasonable
> to assume the datestyle isn't set correctly than to reject the data.
I thought the locale set that kind of behaviour didn't it? If so, then
it's better to fail loudly then quietly accept bad data. But if the
locale doesn't define such a thing, or it can't be set in postgresql.conf,
the it's best to just avoid that date style altogether.
