Hi Richard and thank you for your help. Here is the actual message from the pg log ERROR: 42804: column "datetimein" is of type timestamp without time zone but expression is of type character varying HINT: You will need to rewrite or cast the expression. I can aviod this by rewritting my queries and casting all the stuff though I don't want to have to do this. I am trying to figure out what is happening so I can find a proper solution, like I said this all worked with pg 7.4 Here is my prepared statment in my java class private static final String MANUALINSERT = "insert into pactime (datetimein, pacpayperiodlink, wslink, deptlink, commment, type) " + "values ?,?,?,?,?,'man') "; private static final String DATEOUTUPDATE = "update pactime set datetimeout = timestamp, commment = ?, type='man' where pactimeid =?"; and here si the way to fix but there are too many queires to have to change them all. private static final String MANUALINSERT = "insert into pactime (datetimein, pacpayperiodlink, wslink, deptlink, commment, type) " + "values (cast(? as timestamp),?,?,?,?,'man') "; private static final String DATEOUTUPDATE = "update pactime set datetimeout = cast(? as timestamp), commment = ?, type='man' where pactimeid =?"; here is where I am executing the statement in java stmt = con.prepareStatement(DATEOUTUPDATE); stmt.setString(1, dateout); stmt.setString(2, comment); stmt.setString(3, pactimeid); On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 09:07 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > Jason Tesser wrote: > > I just upgraded 7.4 to 8.0 and I have noticed that i am getting alot > > of error that are saying i have a type problem. For example it is > > saying big int expected but it was sent character varying. > > Is it right? Do you have an example you could give? > > > These > > same queries use to work in 7.4 I am using java and jboss. My > > queries are all dynamic sql in prepared statements. > > I'm guessing something is blindly quoting all values. Seems unlikely > that it's the jdbc driver. > > Examples, please. > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster