Re: [HACKERS] 3 digit ISO dates

2003-09-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ooooh - that must have been a side effect of the 'only parse dates in set > format' changes...was it intended? Yes, I thought so. The relevant bit of the change is here: ! /*** !* Enough digits to be unequivocal year? Used to test for

Re: [HACKERS] 3 digit ISO dates

2003-09-15 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> > I can't see any reason why we shouldn't allow it??? > > Works here(7.4beta2): > > andreak=# select '111-01-01'::date; > date > - > 0111-01-01 > (1 row) Ooooh - that must have been a side effect of the 'only parse dates in set format' changes...was it intended? Chris --

Re: [HACKERS] 3 digit ISO dates

2003-09-15 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 15 September 2003 09:09, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > Hi, > > Are we going to address the fact that you can't enter 3 digit years without > a leading 0? > > australia=# select '111-01-01'::date; > ERROR: Bad date external representation

[HACKERS] 3 digit ISO dates

2003-09-15 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Hi, Are we going to address the fact that you can't enter 3 digit years without a leading 0? australia=# select '111-01-01'::date; ERROR: Bad date external representation '111-01-01' australia=# select '0111-01-01'::date; date 0111-01-01 (1 row) I can't see any reason why we