On Friday 20 February 2004 14:58, Silke Trissl wrote: > Hi, > > I have an application where users can enter the date via a web interface. > > Recently I upgrated my PostgreSQL version from 7.3 to 7.4.1. > > On 7.3 I run several tests about the format of the date and found, > that Postgres accepts almost everything. Today I found out, that 7.4.1 > only accepts dates in the format mm-dd-yy, although the documentation > still states the following
> 5. > Otherwise the date field ordering is assumed to follow the > DateStyle setting: mm-dd-yy, dd-mm-yy, or yy-mm-dd. Throw an error if a > month or day field is found to be out of range. I think what happened is that it will now *only* accept the format specified by your datestyle setting. Previously, as you say, it would have a guess at almost anything (and sometimes get it wrong). -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
