Re: Bug in to_timestamp().

On Thursday, August 25, 2016 1:56 PM, Artur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
>> #2. Warning at compilation;
>>
>> formatting.c: In function ‘do_to_timestamp’:
>> formatting.c:3049:37: warning: ‘prev_type’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>> if (prev_type == NODE_TYPE_SPACE || prev_type == NODE_TYPE_SEPARATOR)
>> ^
>> formatting.c:2988:5: note: ‘prev_type’ was declared here
>> prev_type;
>> ^
>>
>> You can avoid this by assigning  zero (or introduce NODE_TYPE_INVAL ) to prev_type at following line:
>>
>> 256 +               prev_type;
>
>
>You are right. I assigned to prev_type NODE_TYPE_SPACE to be able to
>execute such query:
>
>
>SELECT to_timestamp('---2000----JUN', 'YYYY MON');
>
>
>Will be it a proper behaviour?


Looks good to me, no one will complain if something working on PG but not on Oracle.


Thanks & Regards,
Amul Sul