Greetings,
It looks like to_char is unable to convert dates that fall in the range
of 01/01/1902 to 12/31/1969 (see below). I am running the Postgresql RPM
that is distributed with RH 8.0 (7.2.2.1). PGDATESTYLE is set to "SQL".
I find to_char behaves correctly on my RH 7.2 box with Postgresql 7.2
compiled from source.
Are there any known workarounds, or should I try compiling 7.2.3 from
source on my RH 8 box?
Jord Tanner
Independent Gecko Consultants
jord@nospam-indygecko.com
gbi=# select to_char('12/31/1969'::date, 'YYYYMMDD');
ERROR: Unable to convert date to tm
gbi=# select to_char('01/01/1970'::date, 'YYYYMMDD');
to_char
----------
19700101
(1 row)
gbi=# select to_char('01/01/1900'::date, 'YYYYMMDD');
to_char
----------
19000101
(1 row)
gbi=# select to_char('01/01/1930'::date, 'YYYYMMDD');
ERROR: Unable to convert date to tm
gbi=# select to_char('01/01/1920'::date, 'YYYYMMDD');
ERROR: Unable to convert date to tm
gbi=# select to_char('01/01/1910'::date, 'YYYYMMDD');
ERROR: Unable to convert date to tm
gbi=# select to_char('01/01/1901'::date, 'MMDDYYYY');
to_char
----------
01011901
(1 row)
gbi=# select to_char('01/01/1902'::date, 'MMDDYYYY');
ERROR: Unable to convert date to tm
gbi=# select to_char('01/01/2000'::date, 'YYYYMMDD');
to_char
----------
20000101
(1 row)
gbi=# select version();
version
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 7.2.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2
20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
(1 row)
