Re: to_date gives odd results

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

Josh Tolley escribió:
> > On Thursday 30 August 2007 21:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > to_date and friends are fairly awful in terms of not throwing errors
> > > when the input doesn't really match the format.  I think what you
> > > shoulda got here is a bad-input error.  However, somebody's going to
> > > have to do a major rewrite of formatting.c to make it much better...
> 
> Any votes for making that formatting.c rewrite a TODO item?

Well, there is already a to_char patch scheduled for 8.4.  If you want
to improve the to_date code, you are invited to do so -- no need to have
a TODO item about it.

If what you expect is that having a TODO item will mean that somebody
else will start working on it, I think you'll be disappointed :-)

(OTOH maybe we should add it and put the % mark in it.)

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