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Subject: Re: BUG #17794: dates with zero or negative years are not accepted
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> We just stopped doing this "shift-by-one" in probably the one arguable c=
ase
> where doing so made sense.
> https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/489c9c3407cbfd473c2f8d7863ff=
aaf6d2e8fcf8

Hmm, yeah, we should have suggested to_date as an alternative.  Its use
of a format string makes the parsing problem more tractable.

			regards, tom lane