Re: [GENERAL] ISO week dates

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] ISO week dates
Date: 2007-02-14 18:58:13
Message-ID: 200702141858.l1EIwDt16058@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I don't think Oracle even has that. But personally I'd like to see
> >> errors for invalid pattern combinations.
>
> > What do we do with other invalid pattern combinations in to_char() now?
>
> Mostly, we return bogus results :-(. The formatting.c code in general
> doesn't seem very robust.

Yep, seems every release I am in there cleaning up some mistake repeated
multiple times in the code. It needs a good cleaning.

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