Re: to_date_valid()

On 07/26/2016 06:25 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 7/5/16 4:24 AM, Albe Laurenz wrote:
>> But notwithstanding your feeling that you would like your application
>> to break if it makes use of this behaviour, it is a change that might
>> make some people pretty unhappy - nobody can tell how many.
>
> What is the use of the existing behavior?  You get back an arbitrary
> implementation dependent value.  We don't even guarantee what the value
> will be.  If we changed it to return a different implementation
> dependent value, would users get upset?

No they would not get upset because they wouldn't know.

Can we just do the right thing?

JD




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