Re: date function bug

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Ravi Krishna <sr_krishna(at)aol(dot)com>, Kevin Brannen <KBrannen(at)efji(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: date function bug
Date: 2019-10-23 16:31:51
Message-ID: f4b30601-5980-cf44-a83a-59b6332d2de0@aklaver.com
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On 10/23/19 7:55 AM, Ravi Krishna wrote:
>>
>> ====================
>>
>> Surprisingly (to me), no….
>>
>> db=# select to_date('20181501','YYYYMMDD');
>> to_date
>> ------------
>> 2019-03-03
>
> The above fails in 11.5 SQL Error [22008]: ERROR: date/time field value out of range: "20181501"
>

Behavior changed in v10:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/release-10.html
"

Make to_timestamp() and to_date() reject out-of-range input fields
(Artur Zakirov)

For example, previously to_date('2009-06-40','YYYY-MM-DD') was accepted
and returned 2009-07-10. It will now generate an error.
"

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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