Re: to_date() and invalid dates

Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> I asked this a while back already:
>
> select to_date('2013-02-31', 'yyyy-mm-dd');
>
> will not generate an error (unlike e.g. Oracle)

This is by design.

> However in the release notes of 9.2.3[1] it is mentioned that
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> - Reject out-of-range dates in to_date() (Hitoshi Harada)
>
> I tried the above statement using 9.2.6 and 9.3.2 in both versions 2013-02-03 is returned instead of
> rejecting the input.
> The same is true if e.g. an invalid month is specified: to_date('2013-17-09', 'yyyy-mm-dd').
>
> Does this check need a configuration setting to be in effect?

This commit only rejects dates that are before 4713 BC and 5874898 AD,
which cannot be printed reasonably.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe