bsreejithin, 05.11.2013 13:14: > Not able to post the attached details as a comment in the reply box, so > attaching it as an image file : > <http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/file/n5776987/Untitled.png> It would have much easier if you had simply used copy & paste to post a text version of that SQL. Does your mail client not allow you to do that? But your test case is essentially this: select to_date('33-OCT-2013', 'dd-mon-yyyy') which indeed returns 2013-11-02 (using 9.3.1) I don't know if this is inteded or actually a bug - I can't find anything in the docs relating to that behaviour. Thomas -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general