Hello and thanks for the Postgres team for another fine release of
Postgres. I'm working on doing some test dump/imports from Postgres 7.1
to Postgres 7.2.
I'm using a 7.1 pg_dumpall, and a 7.2 psql to import.
It's hanging on this error:
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CREATE TABLE "mail_history" ( "mail_id" integer DEFAULT
nextval('mail_history_mail_id_seq'::text) NOT NULL, "subject" character varying(200), "body" text,
"group_id"integer, "date_created" date DEFAULT date(('current'::"timestamp" +
'00:00'::"interval")) NOT NULL, "n_sent" integer DEFAULT 0
);
ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation 'current'
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The use of 'current' is clearly not suported as stated in the upgrade
docs. What's frustrating is that the SQL I used to create the table WAS
valid, using the standard CURRENT_DATE function, but Postgres internally
connverted this into this broken format. Here was my original create statement:
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create table mail_history ( mail_id serial, subject varchar(200),
body text, group_id integer, date_created date not null
defaultCURRENT_DATE, n_sent integer default 0
);
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This is from an old project. It might have started in Postgres 6.5.x and
then been imported into Postgres 7.0 and then Postgres 7.1. Is there a
way that I help coax Postgres into providing better support for this
kind of legacy data?
-mark
