Re: [HACKERS] Date conversion using day of week

From: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, marc(at)bloodnok(dot)com, hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Date conversion using day of week
Date: 2011-03-31 18:46:14
Message-ID: AANLkTimFjM5OGnUysvavzgCWgOrrEa06MacLnDNwsjiV@mail.gmail.com
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On 1 April 2011 05:16, Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> wrote:
> Well, to return to the original issue, should we allow the day to be spelled
> out and fix it (as noted in this thread it is non-standard but also
> unambiguous and we already allow plenty of non-standard formats) or throw an
> error? For me personally, either would be fine. What isn't correct is the
> current behavior:

I started out thinking we should throw the error, but I am coming
around to the idea of fixing it. I outlined how that might work in
reply to Adrian Klaver elsewhere in the thread [1].

Cheers,
BJ

[1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-03/msg01906.php

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