Re: Time / Date -fieldtype - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Time / Date -fieldtype
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Msg-id 20030304141850.GA16484@wolff.to
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In response to Time / Date -fieldtype  (Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni.ruuhimaki@kymi.com>)
Responses Re: Time / Date -fieldtype  (Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni.ruuhimaki@kymi.com>)
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 15:48:51 +0200,
  Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni.ruuhimaki@kymi.com> wrote:
> Hi folks !
>
> What is the proper type for date or timestamp so that the field can also be
> null or empty when inserting new rows?
>
> I have to have fields for applied, accepted and renewed for a product license
> and not all are necessarily present when creating a new product. Now I get
> 'bad timestamp external representation' for an empty form field.

'' is not the same as NULL .

Your app probably needs to look for empty date and/or timestamp strings
and replace them with NULL .

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