Re: BUG #16419: wrong parsing BC year in to_date() function

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #16419: wrong parsing BC year in to_date() function
Date: 2020-09-30 18:50:31
Message-ID: 892062.1601491831@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:11:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm, I read your reference to "the release notes" as suggesting that
>> we should change it only in a major release, ie HEAD only (and it
>> looks like David read it the same). If you meant minor release notes,
>> then we're on the same page.

> Yes, I was thinking just the major release notes. What are you
> suggesting, and what did you ultimately decide to do? What I didn't
> want to do was to document the old behavior in the old docs and change
> it in PG 14.

Actually, I was just finishing up back-patching the patch I posted
yesterday. I think we should just fix it, not document that it's
broken.

regards, tom lane

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