am Fri, dem 07.09.2007, um 17:22:30 +1200 mailte anru chen folgendes: > Hi all: > > i am use postgres 8.2 on windows XP, following select statement > > "select to_date('10 August 2007','DD Month YYYY');" > return me 0007-08-10, > > if i do "select to_date('10 September 2007','DD Month YYYY');" > result is correct 2007-09-10 > > seems like "to_date" function only work correctly for current month.
No, seems like to_char only work corrently if the length of the month correctly... test=*# select to_date('10 August 2007','DD Month YYYY'); to_date ------------ 2007-08-10 (1 row) test=*# select to_date('10 August 2007','DD Month YYYY'); to_date ------------ 0007-08-10 (1 row) But this is described, see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-formatting.html ,----[ quote ] | MONTH full uppercase month name (blank-padded to 9 chars) | Month full mixed-case month name (blank-padded to 9 chars) | month full lowercase month name (blank-padded to 9 chars) `---- Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster