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On 01/18/07 17:22, Scott Ribe wrote:
>> But this won't work if one had a text column of dates in various
>> formats, right?
> 
> Right. In my case I have bad data from a source I didn't control, exported
> via code that I do control which happens to output YYYY-MM-DD. Well, except
> that I don't do what I need to when MM or DD are more than 2 digits, but I'm
> going back to look at that again ;-)

Why didn't the PG engine reject these bad-date records at INSERT
time.  This smacks of something that MySQL would do...

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