Re: date format in 7.4

Silke Trissl <trissl@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> On 7.3 I run several tests about the format of the date and found,
> that Postgres accepts almost everything. Today I found out, that 7.4.1 
> only accepts dates in the format mm-dd-yy,

It now requires the field order to be what DateStyle says it is.  See
the very voluminous flamewar about ambiguous date input handling in the
pgsql-hackers archives from last summer.

> although the documentation still states the following

AFAICS the documentation says so too...
        regards, tom lane