Re: Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() to accept localized names

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Even whitespace is problematic for some languages, such as Afan,

> mon "Qunxa Garablu";/
> "Naharsi Kudo";/
> "Ciggilta Kudo";/

> (etc) but I think whitespace-splitting is going to be more comprehensible
> in the vast majority of cases, even if not perfect.

Interesting. Given that to_date et al are often willing to ignore
whitespace in input, I wonder whether we won't have some other issues
with names like that --- not so much that basic cases wouldn't work,
as that people might reasonably expect that, say, we'd be flexible
about the amount of whitespace. Seems like a problem for another day
though.

In the meantime, I agree that "truncate at whitespace" is a better
heuristic for the error messages than what we've got. I'll go make it so.

regards, tom lane