Re: Using YY-MM-DD date input

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > But we lose functionality that can't possibily be used in 2003 because
> > 03-01-01 doesn't identify 03 as a year.
>
> This argument is specious.  You could equally well use it to justify
> removing our support for dd-mm-yy and mm-dd-yy, because those aren't
> unique either.

I must not be understanding you.  Given our current feature set,
removing the ability to specify YY-MM-DD when the year is greater than
31 just seems useless to me, and a cause of possible errors.

To be specific, your complaint, I think, is that we don't want to lose
the functionality that says 97-01-02 is from 1997.

Now, adding a YYMMDDD mode (not to be confused with YYYYMMDD) to
datestyle is a feature addition to me.  I am not sure if anyone wants
it, though.

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