hi bill
Null fields shouldnt be the cause of the problem..
A null text field gets translated to a null datetime..
The problem must be because ur database might be specifying the field to be NOT NULL.. Check it out
.. If thats the cause there is no way but to drop that constraint..
Hope this helps
Anand Raman
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Barnes <bbarnes@operamail.com>
To: Anand Raman <araman@india-today.com>; <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 1:51 PM
Subject: RE: [GENERAL] date format problem
> Hello Anand:
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> The problem turned out to be date fields with null values. Disappointing!
> A lot of my Sybase procedures tested for null dates.
>
> So my workaround was to edit the null dates to a pseudo date. This is least
> got my database poplulated. Will try the cast for queries and updates.
>
> I don't know which SQL, Postresql or Sybase, is an extension or non-compliant.
>
> Bill Barnes
>
> >===== Original Message From "Anand Raman" <araman@india-today.com> =====
> >HI bill
> >Try to cast the field to the datetime type
> >
> >'ur_string_goes_here'::datetime
> >
> >Hope this will help
> >Anand Raman
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Bill Barnes <bbarnes@operamail.com>
> >To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> >Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:09 PM
> >Subject: [GENERAL] date format problem
> >
> >
> >> Hello List:
> >>
> >> Using 6.5.3 on SuSE 6.4.
> >>
> >> Built a table with a date field as type 'datetime'.
> >>
> >> I try to copy a text file to the table and get a 'bad date format'
> >> Dates in the text file may be null, but are in the form 1997-12-15.
> >> Have tried several of the date field types with the same result.
> >> The copy executes properly if I redefine the date field to varchar.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help.
> >> Bill Barnes
> >>
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