Re: Parse CE and BCE in dates and times

Op 13-06-2022 om 07:51 schreef David Fetter:
> Folks,
>
> Please find attached a patch to do $Subject. As dates in a fair number
> of fields of endeavor are expressed this way, it seems reasonable to
> ensure tha we can parse them on input. Making it possible to use them
> in output is a more invasive patch, and would involve changes to
> to_date and similar that would require careful consideration.

Hi David,

I find some unexpected results:

# select '112-04-30 BC'::date;
date
---------------
0112-04-30 BC
(1 row)

but the same with the ' BCE' suffix seems broken:

# select '112-04-30 BCE'::date;
ERROR: invalid input syntax for type date: "112-04-30 BCE"
LINE 1: select '112-04-30 BCE'::date;

The same goes for '112-04-30 AD' (works) and its CE version (errors out).

Or is this as expected?

Erik Rijkers

>
> Best,
> David.