Re: Bug in to_timestamp().

On 23.06.2016 21:02, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> At the very least I'd want to see a thought-through proposal that
>>> addresses all three of these interrelated points:
>>>
>>> * what should a space in the format match
>>> * what should a non-space, non-format-code character in the format match
>>> * how should we handle fields that are not exactly the width suggested
>>> by the format
>
>> I'm not averse to some further study of those issues, and I think the
>> first two are closely related. The third one strikes me as a somewhat
>> separate consideration that doesn't need to be addressed by the same
>> patch.
>
> If you think those issues are not interrelated, you have not thought
> about it carefully enough.
>
> As an example, what we can do to handle not-expected-width fields is
> very different if the format is "DDMMYY" versus if it is "DD-MM-YY".
> In the first case we have little choice but to believe that each
> field is exactly two digits wide. In the second case, depending on
> how we decide to define matching of "-", we might be able to allow
> the field widths to vary so that they're effectively "whatever is
> between the dashes". But that would require insisting that "-"
> match a "-", or at least a non-alphanumeric, which is not how it
> behaves today.
>
> I don't want to twiddle these behaviors in 9.6 and then again next year.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

Hi,

I want to start work on this patch.

As a conclusion:
- need a decision about three questions:

>
> * what should a space in the format match
> * what should a non-space, non-format-code character in the format match
> * how should we handle fields that are not exactly the width suggested
> by the format

- nobody wants solve this issue in 9.6.

And I have question: what about wrong input in date argument? For
example, from Alex's message:

> postgres=# SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP('2016-02-30 15:43:36', 'YYYY-MM-DD
> HH24:MI:SS');
> to_timestamp
> ------------------------
> 2016-03-01 15:43:36+03
> (1 row)

Here '2016-02-30' is wrong date. I didn't see any conclusion about this
case in the thread.

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