Re: updating table where one date field is null

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, richard terry wrote:

> I'm passing some information to postges (from gambas basic), which gets
the
> data from date type
>
> eg date1 as date
>      date2 as date
>
> (IN the postgres database the default on the date field is null)
>
> my problem is that postgres baulks when I"ve not put a date into one of
the
> gambas date variables with the message:
>
> "invalid syntax for type date '00:00:00'"
>
> my sql is far more complex but reduced to the date part reads something
like
> this
>
> insert into mytable (date1, date2) values
>
> ('01/01/2008','00:00:00')

'00:00:00' isn't a date. Are you sure that the second isn't meant to be a
time?

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