Re: Over-rigidity in recent to_timestamp() rewrite

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Over-rigidity in recent to_timestamp() rewrite
Date: 2009-03-14 18:09:39
Message-ID: 20090314180939.GC29602@fetter.org
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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 01:39:35PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Whilst poking at bug #4702 I noticed that PG CVS HEAD rejects use of
> AD/BC notation, as well as CC (separate century) fields, in
> combination with ISO-style day numbers. I don't see the point of
> this. It's historically inaccurate, no doubt, but so is use of
> Gregorian counting. So I suggest the attached fix. Does this make
> anyone unhappy?

Works for me :)

Cheers,
David.
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