Brendan Jurd wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > "Alex Hunsaker" <bada...@gmail.com> writes: > >> However that still leaves the original complaint around (at least IMHO): > > > >> select to_timestamp('AN', 'AM'); > >> ERROR: invalid AM/PM string > > > >> select to_timestamp('11:47 PM 27 Sep a2008', 'HH:MI PM DD Mon YYYY'); > >> ERROR: invalid value for "YYYY" in source string > > > > Yeah, it would be a lot better if it said > > > > ERROR: invalid value for "YYYY": "a2008" > > > > The DETAIL is good too, but it's no substitute for showing the exact > > substring that the code is unhappy about. > > > > I agree. And with my proposed changes to the meridiem/era marker > code, it will be much easier to improve the error messages in a > consistent way. > > I'll work on a patch for the Nov commitfest.
Brendan, did you ever complete this patch? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers