From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Arthur Zakirov <zaartur(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() to accept localized names |
Date: | 2020-01-25 09:31:42 |
Message-ID: | aa5d8d96-0eb6-07b9-2caf-0910b313cb56@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 2020-01-24 19:01, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> postgres=# select to_char(now(),'TMmonth');
> to_char
> ------------
> ιανουαρίου
> (1 row)
>
> which is the genitive of ιανουάριος. You use the genitive form for a
> date (24th of January) but the nominative otherwise. But the reverse
> mapping can only take one of these forms. So here
>
> select to_date('Ιανουαριος', 'TMMonth');
>
> fails, which is bad.
For the record, the correct form of that would appear to be
select to_date('Ιανουάριος', 'TMMonth');
with the accent. I had tried different variations of that and they all
failed.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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