On 5/16/14, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > patrick keshishian <pkeshish@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I started to look into using pg_query_params() with some >> php scripts, but ran into this issue where I get: > >> PHP message: PHP Warning: pg_query_params(): Query failed: ERROR: >> invalid input syntax for type timestamp: "$1" >> LINE 1: ... date_trunc('day', now()), date_trunc('day', TIMESTAMP '$1') > > You probably want just this: > > ... date_trunc('day', now()), date_trunc('day', $1::timestamp) This worked. Thank you for your quick response! --patrick > > The syntax TIMESTAMP '...' is only for plain literal constants. > > regards, tom lane >