• Tom Lane's avatar
    Fix handling of BC years in to_date/to_timestamp. · 489c9c34
    Tom Lane authored
    Previously, a conversion such as
    	to_date('-44-02-01','YYYY-MM-DD')
    would result in '0045-02-01 BC', as the code attempted to interpret
    the negative year as BC, but failed to apply the correction needed
    for our internal handling of BC years.  Fix the off-by-one problem.
    
    Also, arrange for the combination of a negative year and an
    explicit "BC" marker to cancel out and produce AD.  This is how
    the negative-century case works, so it seems sane to do likewise.
    
    Continue to read "year 0000" as 1 BC.  Oracle would throw an error,
    but we've accepted that case for a long time so I'm hesitant to
    change it in a back-patch.
    
    Per bug #16419 from Saeed Hubaishan.  Back-patch to all supported
    branches.
    
    Dar Alathar-Yemen and Tom Lane
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16419-d8d9db0a7553f01b@postgresql.org
    489c9c34
horology.sql 22.7 KB