Re: to_date gives odd results

From: "Josh Tolley" <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Robert Treat" <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: to_date gives odd results
Date: 2007-08-31 08:58:34
Message-ID: e7e0a2570708310158l285d4553o2f1850ab768e41fe@mail.gmail.com
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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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