Re: to_timestamp() and quarters

Tom Lane wrote:
> Asher Hoskins <asher(at)piceur(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> I can't seem to get to_timestamp() or to_date() to work with quarters,
>
> The source code says
>
> * We ignore Q when converting to date because it is not
> * normative.
> *
> * We still parse the source string for an integer, but it
> * isn't stored anywhere in 'out'.
>
> That might be a reasonable position, but it seems like it'd be better to
> throw an error than silently do nothing. Anybody know what Oracle does
> with this?

+1 for throwing error.
Oracle 10g throws ORA-01820: format code cannot appear in date input format.

Scott