Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm not concerned about to_date so much as I am that timestamp_in lets you
> store values you can't read with timestamp_out.
Your example does not demonstrate any such thing. What it demonstrates
is that to_date will let an out-of-range date into the sy
On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:48, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > pagila=# select to_date('3232098', 'MM/DD/');
> > to_date
> > ---
> > 4568-06-26 BC
> > (1 row)
>
> to_date's absymal lack of error checking is well known. It should
> surely ref
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> pagila=# select to_date('3232098', 'MM/DD/');
> to_date
> ---
> 4568-06-26 BC
> (1 row)
to_date's absymal lack of error checking is well known. It should
surely refuse that input altogether, given that format string.
Feel free to sen
