Re: to_timestamp error handling.

Yes,   there isn't a use case for a month value outside 1-12, i found this
due a typo.




On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Dhaval
> > Jaiswal<dhaval.jaiswal@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> >> postgres=# select to_timestamp('20096010','YYYYMMDD');
> >> ---------------------------
> >>  2013-12-18 00:00:00+05:30
>
> > I suspect you'll find that the 60th month after the start of 2009 is
> > in fact december 2013.
>
> Yeah.  I was kind of surprised that CVS HEAD doesn't complain about this
> --- I thought we'd tightened up the error checking in to_timestamp.
>
> I think it's been occasionally seen as a feature that something like
> '2009-02-29' will be read as '2009-03-01', but it's hard to imagine a
> real use case for month outside 1-12.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>



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