Re: Date Format 9999-12-31-00.00.00.000000 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Date Format 9999-12-31-00.00.00.000000
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Msg-id d67d10e7e7a811f56e42640606e389e5a525f29c.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Date Format 9999-12-31-00.00.00.000000  (Dirk Krautschick <Dirk.Krautschick@trivadis.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, 2020-10-15 at 20:58 +0000, Dirk Krautschick wrote:
> because of a migration from DB2 we have a lot of timestamps like
> 
> 9999-12-31-00.00.00.000000
> 
> What would be the best way to handle this in Postgres also related
> to overhead and performance (index usage?).
> 
> Or is 
> 
> TO_TIMESTAMP('9999-12-31-00.00.00.000000', 'YYYY-MM-DD-HH24.MI.SS.US')
> 
> the only way? And isn't it possible to define this like NLS parameters in Oracle
> system wide?

I would replace them with 'infinity', which is a valid timestamp value
in PostgreSQL.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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