alamb commented on PR #8886:
URL: 
https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/8886#issuecomment-1901137831

   Thank you again @Omega359  @comphead  and @gruuya 
   
   > I'll leave the final decision to @alamb although he already approved. My 
point it would be unexpected to users to have `to_timestamp` behaving 
differently comparing to PG. I prefer a separate method for `from_chrono` 
conversions,
   
   I agree in an ideal world, `to_timestamp` formatting would behave 
identically to an existing implementation (e.g. spark or postgres). However, as 
has been noted this is a non trivial amount of work.  I filed 
https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/8915 to track this item
   
   >  but if we decide to go with current approach we need to provide more 
documentation and examples for users in `scalar_functions.md`. Ideally even to 
have a separate doc page with examples
   
   
   I agree this would be really nice to add
   
   All in all I think this functionality is important enough to provide users 
ways to parse timestamps with alternate formatting, even if the supported 
format strings aren't the ideal form.
   
   


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