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Re: BUG #16419: wrong parsing BC year in to_date() function

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-09-30T19:05:34Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:50:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:11:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Hm, I read your reference to "the release notes" as suggesting that
> >> we should change it only in a major release, ie HEAD only (and it
> >> looks like David read it the same).  If you meant minor release notes,
> >> then we're on the same page.
> 
> > Yes, I was thinking just the major release notes.  What are you
> > suggesting, and what did you ultimately decide to do?  What I didn't
> > want to do was to document the old behavior in the old docs and change
> > it in PG 14.
> 
> Actually, I was just finishing up back-patching the patch I posted
> yesterday.  I think we should just fix it, not document that it's
> broken.

Agreed, that's what I wanted.  You stated in a later email you couldn't
convince yourself of the backpatch, which is why I asked.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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Commits

  1. Fix handling of BC years in to_date/to_timestamp.

  2. Fix make_timestamp[tz] to accept negative years as meaning BC.

  3. doc: PG 13 relnotes, update TOAST item to mention decompression