Re: Bug in to_timestamp().

Alex Ignatov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company

On 20.06.2016 17:09, Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I don't necessarily have an opinion yet.  I would like to see more than
>> just an unsupported assertion about what Oracle's behavior is.  Also,
>> how should FM mode affect this?
> I can supply what Oracle 12.1 does:
>
> SQL> SELECT to_timestamp('2016-06-13 15:43:36', ' YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS') AS ts FROM dual;
>
> TS
> --------------------------------
> 2016-06-13 15:43:36.000000000 AD
>
> SQL> SELECT to_timestamp('2016-06-13 15:43:36', 'YYYY/MM/DD  HH24:MI:SS') AS ts FROM dual;
>
> TS
> --------------------------------
> 2016-06-13 15:43:36.000000000 AD
>
> SQL> SELECT to_timestamp('2016-06-13    15:43:36', 'YYYY/MM/DD  HH24:MI:SS') AS ts FROM dual;
>
> TS
> --------------------------------
> 2016-06-13 15:43:36.000000000 AD
>
> (to_timestamp_tz behaves the same way.)
>
> So Oracle seems to make no difference between one or more spaces.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>
Guys, do we need to change this behavior or may be you can tell me that 
is normal because this and this:

postgres=# SELECT TO_TIMESTAMP('2016-02-30 15:43:36', 'YYYY-MM-DD 
HH24:MI:SS');      to_timestamp
------------------------ 2016-03-01 15:43:36+03
(1 row)

but on the other side we have :

postgres=# select '2016-02-30 15:43:36'::timestamp;
ERROR:  date/time field value out of range: "2016-02-30 15:43:36"
LINE 1: select '2016-02-30 15:43:36'::timestamp;

Another bug in to_timestamp/date()?