Re: Importing from Access 2000?

those are bad dates, what do you expect it to do?

Bjorn T Johansen wrote:
> I am trying to convert an Access database to PostgreSQL and the import
> works until it comes to timestamps, then I get error msg like these:
>
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 01:00:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 15:50:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 17:20:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 18:20:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 18:30:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 18:40:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 18:50:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 19:00:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 23:00:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 23:30:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 00:30:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 01:00:00'
> ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation '0000-00-00 19:00:00'
>
> Does anyone have any suggestion on how to overcome this problem?
> (BTW, I am using PostgreSQL 7.3.2 and ODBC)
>
> Regards,
>
> BTJ
>
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