Re: to_timestamp() and quarters

A. Kretschmer wrote:
> In response to Tom Lane :
>> 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'.
>>
>
> Ouch, sound like MySQL / myisam: we accept things like foreign key, but
> we don't implement that...
>
> +1 for raise an error or something, but no 'accept & ignore'.

Thanks for the replies, nice to know I wasn't doing something silly! +1
for raising an error/warning from me too, it would have saved me some
fruitless googling.

Thanks,
Asher.