On 1/18/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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...


The original poster mentioned that the data type that the "date" was stored
in was a varchar, not really much it can do there if don't use the right
data type :(.

Not to mention how misleading it probably is to use a varchar for a data to
the optimizer for calculating selectivity.

--
Chad
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