Re: BUG #5281: Timestamp fields not inserting from 8.3 to 8.4

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
> "Jodi Escalante" <jescalante(at)assistgroup(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> INSERT INTO assessment (id, created, taken, current_weight, note,
>> assessment_type, stay_id, contact_id, estimated_discharge_date,
>> cond_chf, cond_pulm_heart, cond_endocrine_other, cond_skin_temp,
>> ) VALUES ( 50,  2008-01-11 15:06:40.257000 -07:00:00,
>> 2008-01-11 00:00:00.000000 -07:00:00,  2000.0,  NULL,  Initial,
>> 3452, 2147,  NULL,  N,  N,  N,  N)
>
> Without quotes you've got the calculation (2008 minus 1 minus 11)
> which equals the integer 1996.  It doesn't know what to make of the
> number which comes next.  Try something like TIMESTAMP WITH TIME
> ZONE '2008-01-11 15:06:40.257000 -0700'.  Similar issues seem to
> exist with most of your other literals.

Just as a note this might have appeared to work in pre-8.3 but may
have done the wrong thing. Definitely quote your literals.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers