Re: to_timestamp() and quarters

A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>

From: "A. Kretschmer" <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-03-02T15:15:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
In response to Tom Lane :
> Asher Hoskins <asher@piceur.co.uk> writes:
> > I can't seem to get to_timestamp() or to_date() to work with quarters, 
> 
> The source code says
> 
>                  * We ignore Q when converting to date because it is not
>                  * normative.
>                  *
>                  * We still parse the source string for an integer, but it
>                  * isn't stored anywhere in 'out'.
> 

Ouch, sound like MySQL / myisam: we accept things like foreign key, but
we don't implement that...

+1 for raise an error or something, but no 'accept & ignore'.


Andreas
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