From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: to_char() accepting invalid dates?
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:07:43 +0200
Message-ID: <j01p8u$qjl$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <j00u2f$rg8$3@reversiblemaps.ath.cx>
References: <j00qg6$lvf$1@dough.gmane.org>
<j00u2f$rg8$3@reversiblemaps.ath.cx>
Jasen Betts wrote on 18.07.2011 11:23:
>> postgres=> select to_date('20110231', 'yyyymmdd');
>>
>> to_date
>> ------------
>> 2011-03-03
>> (1 row)
>>
>> is there a way to have to_date() raise an exception in such a case?
>
> it's possible the odd behaviour you get is required by some standard.
That would be *very* odd indeed.
> jasen=# select '20110303'::date;
Thanks for the tip, this was more a question regarding _why_ to_char() behaves this way.
Thomas
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