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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0306190024150.2501-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
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scott.marlowe writes:

> That reminds me, did we get the date parsing fixed so that you can't
> insert 22/03/2003 into a european database (or conversely, 03/22/2003 into
> a US database) ?  I.e the problem where the date parser assumed you meant
> it the other way...

I vaguely recall that we wanted to provide some kind of configuration
option to make the date format checking more strict.  If I'm mistaken, I
would certainly be in favor of it now.  But exactly how strict it ought to
be is up for discussion.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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