On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> * convert the value to Unix timestamp notation (subtract off enough
> days to make 0 correspond to 1/1/1970, then multiply by 24*60*60).
> * coerce the resulting integer to abstime and then to whatever
> datatype you want to use (timestamp or date, likely).
This worked perfectly. Thanks very much for the help.
> This will not work if you have any dates before about 1900, however,
> since the Unix timestamp value would underflow.
No problem there. Thankfully, none of the dates go that far back.
> regards, tom lane
Thanks again for all the work on PostgreSQL.
Jason
