Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump bug with default date

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Bryan White wrote:

> I use pg_dump to back up my database. I recently changed one of my date
> fields to have a default value as such:
> firstcontactdate date default current_date,
>
> If I pg_dump the database and reload the CREATE statment for this table
> fails. pg_dump used this defintion:
> "firstcontactdate" "date" DEFAULT date 'current'::datetime + '0 sec'),
> PSQL reports:
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "'"
>
> I can work around this problem by extracting the offending the table create
> statement from the script, pre-creating the table with a corrected
> definition and ignoring the error when the script tries to create the table.
> I don't want to edit the script directly because it is 50MB and growing.
> Fortunately the schema statements are all at the front so I can grab them
> with "head -1000".

I ran into this same problem with Postgres6.3x

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