Paul DuBois wrote:
>
> At 4:26 AM -0500 5/26/99, Fulajtar Pal wrote:
> >Hi,
> > I found a bug in MySQL (3.22.22). Server accepts invalid date fields
> >in date and datetime fields.
> >Example: 1999-02-29, 1999-02-30, 1999-02-31. And if I insert "very"
> >invalid value (1999-02-32)
> >the field value will be 0000-00-00, and the server doesnt give me any
> >error message.
>
> MySQL's approach is that the client is responsible for providing valid
> dates, and that failure to do so will produce unreliable results. The
> reason for this is for server efficiency, to avoid bogging down the
> server with extra validation processing.
>
> One might prefer to have the server do a little extra processing (you
> could argue this question either way), but that's how it is.
>
> --
> Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
> Northern League Chronicles: http://www.snake.net/nl/
>
And if you like it to do validation for you, you have
the sources...
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