Erik Wienhold <ewie@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On 05/04/2023 11:18 CEST Steve Rogerson <steve.git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> # For very early and late dates, PostgreSQL always returns times in >> # UTC and does not tell us that it did so. >> Early is before 1901-12-14 and late after 2038-01-18 >> ... >> These seemed correct to me. I'm guessing this might have been a bug/feature of >> pg in the long ago. > Judging by the commit message and changed test cases, probably: > https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=921d749bd4c34c3349f1c254d5faa2f1cec03911 I think this was not fixed in full until 2008: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=0171e72d4da2da7974ff13c63130e2175cebee88 Either way, though, whatever Steve is looking at is far past its sell-by date. regards, tom lane