Re: Odd error in timestamp processing

You're right on that. I actually grepped my database dump to find all
occurrences of ':60' and only found three dates and no other matches.
Since that was the case, I went with the simple sed script (I was pretty
tired at that point) and it worked for me. I was about to copy out your
script, but I remembered that all of my databases have been upgraded so
I don't need to worry about that any more. I like the script, though.

Cheers!

Bob
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 17:25, Tim Ellis wrote:
> > We had this problem, too. Very annoying. It appears to be a bug in
> > 7.1.x. The way we got around it was to dump the DB out to a file and
> > run sed on the file with the script:
> > s/:60/:59/
> >
> > Then feeding that output into psql.
> >
> > Of course, our database doesn't use ':' followed by numbers for anything
> > but timestamps so your mileage may vary.
>
> Not knowing your dataset, it's safer to run it through a Perl script
> using:
>
> if ($line =~ /^(.*?)(\d\d:\d\d:)60(\.\d\d-\d\d.*)$/) {
> $newLine = $1 . $2 . "59" . $3;
> } else {
> $newLine = $line;
> }
>
> This pretty much makes sure that any ":60" you get is within a string like
> **:**:60:**-** where each * is a 0-9.
>
> That, or use awk as well as sed to make sure you get the proper :60
> replaced.
>
> In any case, I wouldn't trust my large dataset to contain only improper
> :60's. I've been bitten too many times by a too-generic s/XYZ/ABC/ in
> the past.
>
> --
> Tim Ellis
> Senior Database Architect
> Gamet, Inc.
>
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