Re: to_date() month translation

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:51:26PM -0400, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org wrote:

> Sample 1:
> ---------
>
> template1=# select to_date('12-January-2001','DD-Month-YYYY');
>   to_date
> ------------
>  0001-01-12
> (1 row)
>
> template1=# select to_date('12-January  -2001','DD-Month-YYYY');
>   to_date
> ------------
>  2001-01-12
> (1 row)
>
> No file was uploaded with this report


 What is bad on the PostgreSQL documentation and mailing list archives?!

The month name string is 9-chars or you must use FM (fill-mode)option:

test=# select to_char(now(), 'Month DD');
   to_char
--------------
 June      18
(1 row)

test=# select to_char(now(), 'FMMonth DD');
 to_char
---------
 June 18
(1 row)

test=# select to_date('12-January-2001','DD-FMMonth-YYYY');
  to_date
------------
 2001-01-12
(1 row)

                    Karel

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