What happened to the is_<type> family of functions proposal?
Colin 't Hart <colinthart@gmail.com>
From: "Colin 't Hart" <colinthart@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-20T14:29:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,
Back in 2002 these were proposed, what happened to them?
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2002-09/msg00406.php
Also I note:
colin@ruby:~/workspace/eyedb$ psql
psql (8.4.4)
Type "help" for help.
colin=> select to_date('731332', 'YYMMDD');
to_date
------------
1974-02-01
(1 row)
colin=>
The fact that this wraps would seem to me to make the implementation of
is_date() difficult.
I'm trying to query character strings for valid dates but can't see how to
do this quickly... but for that discussion I will move to pgsql-general :-)
Cheers,
Colin