From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] ISO week dates |
Date: | 2007-02-14 20:03:37 |
Message-ID: | 200702142003.l1EK3b607865@momjian.us |
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Brendan Jurd wrote:
> On 2/15/07, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > >> I don't think Oracle even has that. But personally I'd like to see
> > > >> errors for invalid pattern combinations.
> > >
> > > > What do we do with other invalid pattern combinations in to_char() now?
> > >
> > > Mostly, we return bogus results :-(. The formatting.c code in general
> > > doesn't seem very robust.
> >
> > Yep, seems every release I am in there cleaning up some mistake repeated
> > multiple times in the code. It needs a good cleaning.
>
> I'm happy to volunteer to do something about the invalid field
> combinations, but I suspect an overhaul of formatting.c is more than I
> can currently chew. I figure it would be a bit misguided of me to put
> together a patch for invalid field combinations if somebody is about
> to do a rewrite of much of the code?
Yea, I was just throwing out a note that someday if someone has time,
that file need a good sweeping.
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