On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, 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.
Which are? Honestly, I see no good use for the lax parsing.