2022年5月10日(火) 13:28 正华吕 <kain...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
>     I test the following SQL in pg15dev (seems same behavior as the previous 
> version).
>
>     select '2020701'::date;
>     date
>    ------------
>     0202-07-01
>    (1 row)
>
>    At the first glance, the result seems quite strange.
>
>    Go through the code, postgres use date_in to do the cast, and firstly use 
> last 2 chars to
>    get the day, and the 2 chars to get the month, and all remaining chars as 
> year.
>
>    The question here is: should we throw error for such input? Or what 
> standard postgres is
>    using to cast such kind of string?

This is ISO-8601 format, see here for a list of possible input formats:

  
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.html#id-1.5.7.13.18.5


Regards

Ian Barwick

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