am Mon, dem 03.11.2008, um 16:03:33 +0930 mailte Mike Hall folgendes: > Gday, > > I'm currently converting an MS Access database to PostgreSQL (version 8.1 as it is the vesion that ships with CentOS 5). > > I'm having trouble with an INSERT statement attempting to insert an empty value ('') into a field with data type DATE. This produces the following error message: > > ERROR: invalid input syntax for type date: "" An empty string isn't a valid date. Use NULL instead. > > It does the same whether the field has a NOT NULL restraint or not. Doesn't matter. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general