It's a bug in timestamp output.
# select '2001-07-24 15:55:59.999'::timestamp;
?column?
---------------------------
2001-07-24 15:55:60.00-04
(1 row)
Richard Huxton wrote:
>
> From: "tamsin" <tg_mail@bryncadfan.co.uk>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just created a db from a pg_dump file and got this error:
> >
> > ERROR: copy: line 602, Bad timestamp external representation '2000-10-03
> > 09:01:60.00+00'
> >
> > I guess its a bad representation because 09:01:60.00+00 is actually 09:02,
> > but how could it have got into my database/can I do anything about it?
> The
> > value must have been inserted by my app via JDBC, I can't insert that
> value
> > directly via psql.
>
> Seem to remember a bug in either pg_dump or timestamp rendering causing
> rounding-up problems like this. If no-one else comes up with a definitive
> answer, check the list archives. If you're not running the latest release,
> check the change-log.
>
> HTH
>
> - Richard Huxton
>
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