scott.marlowe wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > > > "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The one thing that should absolutely be turned off is day/month swapping > > > on dates of the form: 2003-02-22. > > > > Agreed on that. YYYY-DD-MM isn't used in the real world AFAIK, and it's > > reasonable to treat it as an error. > > > > > I've seen little actual defense of the current behaviour, > > > > Other than me, I think you mean. dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy are > > inherently ambiguous in the real world, and when you can clearly > > determine what the intended meaning is, I think it's more reasonable > > to assume the datestyle isn't set correctly than to reject the data. > > I thought the locale set that kind of behaviour didn't it? If so, then > it's better to fail loudly then quietly accept bad data. But if the > locale doesn't define such a thing, or it can't be set in postgresql.conf, > the it's best to just avoid that date style altogether.
Added to TODO, with question mark: * Have initdb set DateStyle based on locale? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster