Re: Getting error while trying to insert date with the format 'dd-month-yyyy' , 'day-mm-yyyy' etc..

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 17:10:42 Tom Lane wrote:
> Rushabh Lathia <rushabh.lathia@gmail.com> writes:
> > Getting error while trying to insert date with the format 'dd-month-yyyy'
> > , 'day-mm-yyyy' (format which add the space in between the date ) etc..
>
> 1. Why are you bothering with the completely pointless to_char call at all?

Random guess for entertainment: Oracle applications do this sort of thing all 
the time.

> 2. It is not a bug that to_char is capable of emitting formats that
> won't be read by the standard datetime input converter.  If you insist
> on making a useless conversion to char and back, it's on your head to
> choose a format setting that will work.

Of course they then also use to_date all the time.