Re: BUG #6231: weird to_timestamp behaviour with out of range values

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Henk Enting" <h(dot)d(dot)enting(at)mgrid(dot)net> writes:
>> I would expect the to_timestamp function to return an error when I feed it
>> out of range values, e.g. months > 13 and days > 31. Instead it seems to add
>> the surplus to the timestamp and then return it.
>
> What is your reason for using to_timestamp at all?  The timestamp input
> converter is perfectly capable of dealing with standard formats like
> yyyy-mm-dd, and it does what most people expect in the way of data
> validation checks.

Well, you might want to insist that the input is in some particular
format, rather than just "whatever the input function will accept"...

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