On 11/3/21 17:00, Adrian Klaver wrote:
On 11/3/21 15:56, Bryn Llewellyn wrote:
tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
And you have to have some kind of separator between the years
substring and the adjacent one(s) even to succeed with years that have
more than four digits. Another usage note stresses that while this is OK:
select to_date('12340101', 'YYYYMMDD');
this isn't:
select to_date('123450101', 'YYYYMMDD');
It does with a tweak:
select to_date('12345 0101', 'FMYYYYMMDD');
to_date
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12345-01-01
Well that was just plain wrong. I was not paying attention.
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Adrian Klaver
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