Re: [GENERAL] to_timestamp() and quarters

In response to Bruce Momjian :
> Well, I can easily make it do what you expect, and I don't see many
> error returns in that area of the code, so I just wrote a patch that
> does what you would expect rather than throw an error.

Well, that's great and better than an error, thx.

> 	test=> select to_date('2010-7', 'YYYY-Q');
> 	  to_date
> 	------------
> 	 2011-07-04
> 	(1 row)

Is this per SQL-Spec? I would expect an error for a quarter not in
(1,2,3,4).

But stop, now i see:

test=*# select to_date('2010-02-29', 'YYYY-MM-DD');
  to_date
------------
 2010-03-01
(1 row)

So it is maybe a congruously behavior ;-)


Regards, Andreas
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