Strange behaviour of to_date()

I noticed a quite strange behaviour of to_char() in 7.0 and 7.1. It treats
abbreveated forms of a date completely wrong. Example:

-- this one is ok
mario=# select to_date('04.01.2001', 'dd.mm.yyyy');
to_date
------------
2001-01-04

-- this is completly wrong, but NO error raised
mario=# select to_date('4.01.2001', 'dd.mm.yyyy');
to_date
------------
0001-01-04

-- completly wrong as well
mario=# select to_date('4.1.2001', 'dd.mm.yyyy');
to_date
------------
0001-01-04

IMO to_date() should either recognize the date, even if shorter than the mask
(Oracle compatible), or raise an error. Currently it gives completly wrong
results, which is the worst option.

I tried to fix this myself, but I'm lost within backend/utils/adt/formatting.c

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