From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Silke Trissl <trissl@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: date format in 7.4
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:32:26 -0500
Message-ID: <28036.1077291146@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40362082.7070900@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
References: <40362082.7070900@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Silke Trissl <trissl@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> 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,
It now requires the field order to be what DateStyle says it is. See
the very voluminous flamewar about ambiguous date input handling in the
pgsql-hackers archives from last summer.
> although the documentation still states the following
AFAICS the documentation says so too...
regards, tom lane
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