| From: | "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Date data type |
| Date: | 2008-11-03 07:41:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20081103074154.GC27123@a-kretschmer.de |
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am Mon, dem 03.11.2008, um 16:03:33 +0930 mailte Mike Hall folgendes:
> Gday,
>
> I'm currently converting an MS Access database to PostgreSQL (version 8.1 as it is the vesion that ships with CentOS 5).
>
> I'm having trouble with an INSERT statement attempting to insert an empty value ('') into a field with data type DATE. This produces the following error message:
>
> ERROR: invalid input syntax for type date: ""
An empty string isn't a valid date. Use NULL instead.
>
> It does the same whether the field has a NOT NULL restraint or not.
Doesn't matter.
Andreas
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