Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 11:22, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca> writes:
> > Shouldn't dates be validated using the *LOCALE setting and not try to
> > guess?
>
> It would make sense to offer a "strict" mode in which the date order
> has to be what DateStyle suggests.  I'm astonished that no one seems
> to get the point that there are also good uses for "lax" parsing.

Hey, I also only like the SERIALIZABLE transaction mode.

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