Re: Date input changed in 7.4 ?

How about reporting the current DateStyle in such messages? Then it
should be clear if the date parse failed because of a mismatch.

andrew

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Mendola Gaetano" <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> writes:
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>>May I also suggest to change in date.c the 3 generic error:
>> "invalid input syntax for date: "
>>with more comprensive messages ?
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>That's easier said than done; there are enough different valid syntaxes
>that it's not always obvious what the user's intent was. (Indeed, the
>reason for this change was exactly that the code was guessing wrong too
>much of the time.) See also the thread at
>http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2003-08/msg00113.php
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>I'm currently thinking about reporting "invalid syntax" if
>ParseDateTime() fails and "invalid field value" if the various Decode()
>routines fail, but I'm quite unsure that that will be helpful ...
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