On Tue, June 30, 2009 13:24, Tom Lane wrote: > > No, it's complaining that the constant is out of range --- it's > failing long before it's tried to do any actual BETWEEN comparisons. > Surely you meant something more like 2008-08-09? > > regards, tom lane > The column is a timestamp value. I expected any time on any given date to fall between the start and end of that day so the hh:mm:ss:hh portion does not leap out at me as something that should cause a problem. Should it? The application system times are all UTC. ALTER TABLE currency_exchange_rates ADD COLUMN effective_from timestamp without time zone; ALTER TABLE currency_exchange_rates ALTER COLUMN effective_from SET STORAGE PLAIN; ALTER TABLE currency_exchange_rates ALTER COLUMN effective_from SET NOT NULL; -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general