Re: to_date() and invalid dates

On 01/20/2014 07:32 AM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Michael Nolan, 20.01.2014 16:17:
>> Thomas, try this:
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>> '2013-02-31'::date
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> Thanks, I know this "works", but this can't be used if you have a non-ISO date string
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Hmm:

test=> SELECT '2013-02-31'::date;
ERROR: date/time field value out of range: "2013-02-31"
LINE 1: SELECT '2013-02-31'::date;
^
test=> SELECT '2/31/2013'::date;
ERROR: date/time field value out of range: "2/31/2013"
LINE 1: SELECT '2/31/2013'::date;
^
test=> SELECT '2/26/2013'::date;
date
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2013-02-26
(1 row)

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