On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The one thing that should absolutely be turned off is day/month swapping > > on dates of the form: 2003-02-22. > > Agreed on that. YYYY-DD-MM isn't used in the real world AFAIK, and it's > reasonable to treat it as an error. > > > I've seen little actual defense of the current behaviour, > > Other than me, I think you mean. dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy are > inherently ambiguous in the real world, and when you can clearly > determine what the intended meaning is, I think it's more reasonable > to assume the datestyle isn't set correctly than to reject the data.
I thought the locale set that kind of behaviour didn't it? If so, then it's better to fail loudly then quietly accept bad data. But if the locale doesn't define such a thing, or it can't be set in postgresql.conf, the it's best to just avoid that date style altogether. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
