"Wellie Chao" <wchao@yahoo.com> writes:
> I am using DBI 1.48 and DBD::Pg 1.42 (the programming language is obviously
> Perl) to connect to PostgreSQL 8.0.0. The following statements cause
> problems:
> 2005-06-17 16:21:41 EDT LOG: statement: select * from reservation_tbl where
> room_id = $1 and (start_dt, end_dt) overlaps (timestamp $2, timestamp $3)
> 2005-06-17 16:21:41 EDT ERROR: syntax error at or near "$2" at character
> 93
The above is not valid SQL --- the notation "timestamp x" is only legal
when x is a simple string literal. I think you need to complain to the
DBI or DBD::Pg folk, if their code is generating this query.
regards, tom lane
