Re: to_date() and invalid dates

Thomas, try this:

'2013-02-31'::date
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Mike Nolan

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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)
>
>
> However in the release notes of 9.2.3[1] it is mentioned that
>
> - 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?
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
>
> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-3.html
>
>
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