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From: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>
Subject: Re: Timestamp Error - 7.2
To: Keith Gray <keith@heart.com.au>, SQL PostgreSQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
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Keith,

> We have moved from 7.1 to 7.2 and get the following error when
> extracting dates.
> 
> Bad timestamp external representation ' '
> 
> 
> eg. INSERT INTO mytable VALUES('1', '2001-09-24')

The error, as you have described it, is highly unlikely.   You will
need to provide more information if you still want help. Please:

1. Post table defintions.
2. Post your *actual* SQL statements which trigger the error, not
example ones which you have nto actually tested.

-Josh Berkus