Re: Importing from Access 2000?

a timestamp is a point in real time, hence, the date is required. Intervals are an amount of time, and are probably what you need.

Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> Well, they are timestamps but they are just using the time part without
> the date part in the old access db.
> So I am not sure which type it should be the postgresql db, so any
> suggestions are appreciated...
>
>
> BTJ
>
> On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 15:25, Richard Huxton wrote:
>
>>On Tuesday 29 Apr 2003 12:42 pm, 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'
>>
>>[snip more errors]
>>
>>>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)
>>
>>These don't appear to be valid timestamps, hence the problem. At a guess,
>>they're not actually being used to store timestamps. AFAICT your options are:
>>
>>1. Fix the data so that they are valid timestamps.
>>2. Use some other format more suited for your data (interval?)
>>3. Store your timestamp values in text in PGSQL (no, I don't like this
>>either).
>>
>>Options 1 or 2 are the way to go, but it's difficult to say more without
>>knowing what the data is supposed to mean. There is no year-zero, month-zero,
>>day-zero so they can't be timestamps. Let us know what they mean and someone
>>on the list will be able to suggest a suitable type, I'm sure.
>>
>>HTH