"wishy wishy" <wishy66(at)hotmail(dot)com> writes:
> we have a PostgreSQL 7.2.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96
> installation on pogo linux 7.2
> we are facing a data problem when we do the following
> select to_char(to_date('1969-10-22','YYYY-MM-DD'),'YYYY-MM-DD');
> ERROR: Unable to convert date to tm
Recent versions of glibc broke mktime() for dates before 1970.
There is a workaround for this silliness in Postgres 7.2.3.
regards, tom lane