Re: BUG #5714: TZ pattern error on to_timestamp

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: depesz(at)depesz(dot)com
Cc: "Alexander Loechel" <Alexander(dot)Loechel(at)unibw(dot)de>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5714: TZ pattern error on to_timestamp
Date: 2010-10-17 15:28:51
Message-ID: 9820.1287329331@sss.pgh.pa.us
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hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Testing shows that that example fails in every Postgres release back to
>> 7.1. The spelling of the error message varies a bit, but they all agree
>> that a TZ format spec isn't supported.

> Any reason why Pg can't parse TZ?

Nobody's bothered to do the work ...

> perhaps it should be also listed in
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/functions-formatting.html
> doc, that you can't use TZ (and some other patterns too)?

Nobody's bothered to do the work for that, either.

regards, tom lane

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