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Subject: Re: TimestampTz->Text->TimestampTz casting fails with DateStyle
 'Postgres'
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Aleksander Alekseev
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Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 07:40:31 +0100
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On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 17:40 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> So it feels like we'd better do something about this, if we
> don't want to deprecate the Postgres datestyle entirely.

I agree that something should be done, but I'd have no problem
with deprecating the Postgres datestyle.  People who depend on
it can switch to using to_date() and to_timestamp(), which
shouldn't impose too much hardship if we give them enough time.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe