Bruce Momjian, 19.07.2011 00:02:
postgres=> select to_date('20110231', 'yyyymmdd');
to_date
------------
2011-03-03
(1 row)
is there a way to have to_date() raise an exception in such a case?
it's possible the odd behaviour you get is required by some standard.
That would be *very* odd indeed.
jasen=# select '20110303'::date;
Thanks for the tip, this was more a question regarding _why_ to_char() behaves
this way.
Well, to_char() is based on Oracle's to_char(). How does Oracle handle
such a date?
Oracle throws an error for the above example:
SQL> select to_date('20110231', 'YYYYMMDD') from dual;
select to_date('20110231', 'YYYYMMDD') from dual
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01839: date not valid for month specified
SQL>
Regards
Thomas
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