Re: Using YY-MM-DD date input

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using YY-MM-DD date input
Date: 2003-07-28 20:18:02
Message-ID: 200307282018.h6SKI3p10204@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I assume that the datestyle has to be set to YMD for this to work as
> > outlined above, right, and that 97-01-01 will throw an error unless the
> > datestyle is YMD.
>
> Right, no more heuristics (other than assuming YYYY-MM-DD if the first
> field is written with four digits). With 2-digit fields, the field
> order will be taken to be whatever datestyle says it is.

Great.

> > Yes, second one is most recent version.
>
> Thanks, I'll work from that.

Great.

Still working on the regression test failures.

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