Re: BUG #4539: to_char(to_timestamp('...','....')) returns the wrong result

Stuart Green wrote:
> select to_char(to_timestamp('2008-11-14 16:00:00','YYYY-MM-DD
> HH24:MM:SS'),'day');
>
> is returning monday as the day in all the dbase version I Have test, 8.2.11,
> 8.2.10, and 8.1.11

Use 'MI' instead of 'MM' for the minutes. to_timestamp is quite lenient,
and interpretes the 00 in what you meant to be the minutes field as
month number. As there is no month 0, it uses January.

to_timestamp is much stricter in the upcoming 8.4 release, and will
throw an error for that query:

postgres=# select to_char(to_timestamp('2008-11-14 16:00:00','YYYY-MM-DD
HH24:MM:SS'),'day');
ERROR: conflicting values for "MM" field in formatting string
DETAIL: This value contradicts a previous setting for the same field type.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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