At 16:43 -0500 2/14/03, Don Vu wrote:
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.
On 14 Feb 2003, at 16:43, Don Vu wrote:
Is it just me, or does Mysql allow invalid dates to be entered into
columns with date datatype?
See the documentation (http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/DATETIME.html):
The MySQL server only performs basic checking on the validity of
a date: days
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
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At 16:55 -0500 2/14/03, Peter Grigor wrote:
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.
It can be argued either way. You could just as well consider it a
bug that you try
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At 16:55 -0500 2/14/03, Peter Grigor wrote:
Yep, you're right. Never noticed that before :)
I think that would probably be considered a bug
over speed but that's just me...
take care,
d
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Subject: Re: Invalid Date Bug
At 16:55 -0500 2/14/03, Peter Grigor wrote:
Yep, you're
