Yep, you're right. Never noticed that before :) I think that would probably be considered a bug. But possibly for efficiency's sake the check was made ultra simple.
Peter <^_^> --------------------------------------------- Peter Grigor Hoobly Free Classifieds http://www.hoobly.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL Mailing List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 4:43 PM Subject: Invalid Date Bug Is it just me, or does Mysql allow invalid dates to be entered into columns with date datatype? I found some data that blew up in a perl script when doing some date manipulation, and it turns out I have invalid dates in my database, such as June 31, 2003. Of course June never has 31 days. Is this a known bug? honestly, this seems like a pretty basic thing to validate. Is there a patch/fix for it? here's a transcript of a quick test i did afterwards...june 31 enters successfully but not june 33: mysql> create table DateTest ( id integer(11), -> startDate date); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) mysql> desc DateTest; +-----------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-----------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | id | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | | startDate | date | YES | | NULL | | +-----------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> insert into DateTest values (1, '2002-06-31'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> select * from DateTest; +------+------------+ | id | startDate | +------+------------+ | 1 | 2002-06-31 | +------+------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Don Vu > Madstone Theaters 85 fifth avenue, 12th floor > new york > new york > 10003 p 212.379.1545 > f 212.989.7744 > www.madstonefilms.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
