From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() to accept localized names
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Comments: In-reply-to Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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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=E2=80=99t y=
ou 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