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    Allow to_date/to_timestamp to recognize non-English month/day names. · d6775504
    Tom Lane authored
    to_char() has long allowed the TM (translation mode) prefix to
    specify output of translated month or day names; but that prefix
    had no effect in input format strings.  Now it does.  to_date()
    and to_timestamp() will now recognize the same month or day names
    that to_char() would output for the same format code.  Matching is
    case-insensitive (per the active collation's notion of what that
    means), just as it has always been for English month/day names
    without the TM prefix.
    
    (As per the discussion thread, there are lots of cases that this
    feature will not handle, such as alternate day names.  But being
    able to accept what to_char() will output seems useful enough.)
    
    In passing, fix some shaky English and violations of message
    style guidelines in jsonpath errors for the .datetime() method,
    which depends on this code.
    
    Juan José Santamaría Flecha, reviewed and modified by me,
    with other commentary from Alvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra,
    Arthur Zakirov, Peter Eisentraut, Mark Dilger.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC+AXB3u1jTngJcoC1nAHBf=M3v-jrEfo86UFtCqCjzbWS9QhA@mail.gmail.com
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