Re: Potential to_date(string, string) function malfunction

Thanks for reply, don't have access to PG v10 so good to know.

Best regards

Pavel Pleva

Dne 08. 10. 19 v 17:38 Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Pavel Pleva <pavel(dot)pleva(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I'd like to report you in my opinion weird behaviour of function
>> to_date(string, string). According to specs using format 'YYYY-MM-DD' in
>> months portion it should tolerate 01-12 and in days portion 01-31. But
>> if you try "SELECT to_date('2019-30-50', 'YYYY-MM-DD') instead of
>> throwing error it outputs "2021-07-23".
>> This is output of 'SELECT version();' on our system: "PostgreSQL 9.4.23
>> on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red
>> Hat 4.8.5-36), 64-bit"
> PG v10 and later throw an error for this.
>
> regards, tom lane