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Tom Lane d3cd36a133 Make to_timestamp() and to_date() range-check fields of their input.
Historically, something like to_date('2009-06-40','YYYY-MM-DD') would
return '2009-07-10' because there was no prohibition on out-of-range
month or day numbers.  This has been widely panned, and it also turns
out that Oracle throws an error in such cases.  Since these functions
are nominally Oracle-compatibility features, let's change that.

There's no particular restriction on year (modulo the fact that the
scanner may not believe that more than 4 digits are year digits,
a matter to be addressed separately if at all).  But we now check month,
day, hour, minute, second, and fractional-second fields, as well as
day-of-year and second-of-day fields if those are used.

Currently, no checks are made on ISO-8601-style week numbers or day
numbers; it's not very clear what the appropriate rules would be there,
and they're probably so little used that it's not worth sweating over.

Artur Zakirov, reviewed by Amul Sul, further adjustments by me

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README

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
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PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
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and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

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