Friday, September 26, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Meridiem markers (was: [BUGS] Incorrect "invalid AM/PM string" error from to_timestamp)

"Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
> One way to tidy this up would be to re-implement the meridiem markers
> using the seq_search functions, i.e., make it work like the day and
> month names. This would make it easy to accept any flavour of marker,
> and the error messages thrown for bogus input would then be the same
> as those for bogus day and month names.

> Note that all of the above applies equally to the era markers B.C. and A.D.

+1 ... making these work like month names makes sense to me.

regards, tom lane

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