Albe Laurenz, 20.01.2014 15:29:
>> I asked this a while back already:
>>
>> select to_date('2013-02-31', 'yyyy-mm-dd');
>>
>> will not generate an error (unlike e.g. Oracle)
>
> This is by design.
When I previously asked this question the answer as "this is based on Oracle's to_date()":
http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/to-char-accepting-invalid-dates-td4598597.html#a4608551
Oracle rejects such a date, so this is highly irritating for users coming from Oracle.
>> However in the release notes of 9.2.3[1] it is mentioned that
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>> - Reject out-of-range dates in to_date() (Hitoshi Harada)
>>
> This commit only rejects dates that are before 4713 BC and 5874898 AD,
> which cannot be printed reasonably.
Ah, then the comment is somewhat misleading, thanks for the clarification.
Regards
Thomas
