Re: to_date gives odd results - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Josh Tolley
Subject Re: to_date gives odd results
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Msg-id e7e0a2570708310158l285d4553o2f1850ab768e41fe@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: to_date gives odd results  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Responses Re: to_date gives odd results
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> On Thursday 30 August 2007 21:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> > to_date and friends are fairly awful in terms of not throwing errors
> > when the input doesn't really match the format.  I think what you
> > shoulda got here is a bad-input error.  However, somebody's going to
> > have to do a major rewrite of formatting.c to make it much better...

Any votes for making that formatting.c rewrite a TODO item?

-eggyknap

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