From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
To: Joshua Kramer <josh@globalherald.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: DATESTYLE and 0000-00-00
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:16:27 -0400
Message-ID: <20051006141627.6acdd2c1.darcy@druid.net> (raw)
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 09:01:22 -0400 (EDT)
Joshua Kramer <josh@globalherald.net> wrote:
> I have my DATESTYLE set to ISO MDY.
>
> When I try to create a table with a default date of 0000-00-00, psql says
> that this is an invalid date. Why, and can (or how can I) get it to
> accept 0000-00-00 as a valid date?
It is invalid. There was no year 0. Perhaps what you want is NULL or,
possibly, EPOCH if you are looking for a sentinel value.
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