From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Silke Trissl <trissl@informatik.hu-berlin.de>,
	pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: date format in 7.4
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:57:45 +0000
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On Friday 20 February 2004 14:58, Silke Trissl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an application where users can enter the date via a web interface.
>
> Recently I upgrated my PostgreSQL version from 7.3 to 7.4.1.
>
> On 7.3 I run several tests about the format of the date and found,
> that Postgres accepts almost everything. Today I found out, that 7.4.1
> only accepts dates in the format mm-dd-yy, although the documentation
> still states the following

>     5.
>        Otherwise the date field ordering is assumed to follow the
> DateStyle setting: mm-dd-yy, dd-mm-yy, or yy-mm-dd. Throw an error if a
> month or day field is found to be out of range.

I think what happened is that it will now *only* accept the format specified 
by your datestyle setting. Previously, as you say, it would have a guess at 
almost anything (and sometimes get it wrong).


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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd