Re: Time / Date -fieldtype

From: Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni(dot)ruuhimaki(at)kymi(dot)com>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Time / Date -fieldtype
Date: 2003-03-04 14:41:08
Message-ID: 200303041641.08445.aarni.ruuhimaki@kymi.com
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Hi !

And thanks.

INSERT INTO .... VALUES(<cfif Trim(applied) is "">NULL<cfelse>'#applied#',
...)

BR,

aarni

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 16:18, you wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 15:48:51 +0200,
>
> Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni(dot)ruuhimaki(at)kymi(dot)com> wrote:
> > Hi folks !
> >
> > What is the proper type for date or timestamp so that the field can also
> > be null or empty when inserting new rows?
> >
> > I have to have fields for applied, accepted and renewed for a product
> > license and not all are necessarily present when creating a new product.
> > Now I get 'bad timestamp external representation' for an empty form
> > field.
>
> '' is not the same as NULL .
>
> Your app probably needs to look for empty date and/or timestamp strings
> and replace them with NULL .
>
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