MartinKolbAtWork commented on PR #12227:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/12227#issuecomment-2320255117
> Thanks @MartinKolbAtWork for your contribution
>
> I just checked we do have an issue with `to_date` function whereas the
`cast` works correctly
>
> ```
> > select extract(day from cast('9999-12-31' as date));
> +-------------------------------------------+
> | date_part(Utf8("DAY"),Utf8("9999-12-31")) |
> +-------------------------------------------+
> | 31.0 |
> +-------------------------------------------+
> 1 row(s) fetched.
> Elapsed 0.005 seconds.
>
> > select to_date('9999-12-31');
> Arrow error: Parser error: The dates that can be represented as
nanoseconds have to be between 1677-09-21T00:12:44.0 and
2262-04-11T23:47:16.854775804
> ```
>
> Perhaps we can use a the same implementation like CAST does(reuse it)
instead of creating a new impl
The main thing of "to_date" is that is supports supplying a format string.
As CAST does not support this, I don't think merging or re-using these two
implementations is an approach that should be pursued.
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