Re: Rectifying wrong Date outputs

Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of jue mar 17 11:09:56 -0300 2011:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> > Keep in mind that the datetime stuff was abandoned by the maintainer
> > some years ago with quite some rough edges.  Some of it has been fixed,
> > but a lot of bugs remain.  Looks like this is one of those places and it
> > seems appropriate to spend some time fixing it.  Since it would involve
> > a behavior change, it should only go to 9.2, of course.
>
> I wouldn't object to fixing the problem with # of digits > # of Ys in
> 9.1, if the fix is simple and clear-cut. I think we are still
> accepting patches to make minor tweaks, like the tab-completion patch
> I committed yesterday. It also doesn't bother me tremendously if we
> push it off, but I don't think that anyone's going to be too sad if
> TO_DATE('01-jan-2010', 'DD-MON-YYY') starts returning something more
> sensible than 3010-01-01.

If it can be delivered quickly and it is simple, sure. But anything
more involved should respect the release schedule.

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