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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo.santamaria@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Arthur Zakirov <zaartur@gmail.com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() to accept localized names
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:51:27 -0500
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2020-01-28 04:05, Mark Dilger wrote:
>> German uses both Sonnabend and Samstag for Saturday, so don’t you have to compare to a list of values anyway?

> Yeah, good point.  If it doesn't accept both "Sonnabend" and "Samstag", 
> then it's not really usable.

If we're going to insist on that, then the entire patch is junk.
Indeed, I don't even know where we could get the knowledge of which
name(s) to accept, because strftime is surely only going to tell us
one of them.

			regards, tom lane





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