On 9/9/16 4:48 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> ValidateDate() will tell you if it's a valid date. But not if the
> transformation was correct:
>
> postgres=# SELECT to_date('2011 12 18', 'YYYY MM DD');
> to_date
> ------------
> 2011-12-08
> (1 row)
>
> (with the patch from Artur)
>
>
> Any idea how to solve this problem?
I think we need to do overflow checking as we read the various values,
in do_to_timestamp() and functions called from it. This would be very
similar to overflow checking in input functions.
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