Re: BUG #16419: wrong parsing BC year in to_date() function

On Tue, 2020-05-12 at 18:09 -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> Redirecting to -hackers for visibility.  I feel there needs to be something done here, even if just documentation (a bullet in the usage notes section - and a code comment update for the macro)
> pointing this out and not changing any behavior.

Since "to_date" is an Oracle compatibility function, here is what Oracle 18.4 has to say to that:

SQL> SELECT to_date('0000', 'YYYY') FROM dual;
SELECT to_date('0000', 'YYYY') FROM dual
               *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01841: (full) year must be between -4713 and +9999, and not be 0