From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Joshua Kramer <josh@globalherald.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: DATESTYLE and 0000-00-00
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:37:45 -0600
Message-ID: <20051006183745.GA17388@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:01:22AM -0400, Joshua Kramer 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?
Why do you want to, considering that 0000-00-00 is *not* a valid
date? Why not use NULL to represent an unknown value?
--
Michael Fuhr
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