From: CoL <col@mportal.hu>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Validity check in to_date?
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:17:52 +0100
Message-ID: <bqhor7$1v1q$1@news.hub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031127141125.GC87728@dyatel.antar.bryansk.ru>
References: <20031127141125.GC87728@dyatel.antar.bryansk.ru>
hi,
SELECT isfinite(timestamp '123.45.2003'); if this is true, the date is
ok, if error, than not :)
C.
Alexander M. Pravking wrote:
> I just discovered that to_date() function does not check if supplied
> date is correct, giving surprising (at least for me) results:
>
> fduch=# SELECT to_date('31.11.2003', 'DD.MM.YYYY');
> to_date
> ------------
> 2003-12-01
>
> or even
>
> fduch=# SELECT to_date('123.45.2003', 'DD.MM.YYYY');
> to_date
> ------------
> 2007-01-03
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