Re: Bad timestamp external representation

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:09:46 -0700 (PDT)
Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> wrote:

Actually, that was the last thing I tried before I wrote this note. Before I entered

herboris=> INSERT INTO cart (cartid, clientid, invdate, paydate) VALUES
herboris-> (4469858, 2, 'current', 'now');

And still got the same error message:

ERROR: Bad date external representation 'current'

> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Mark Tessier wrote:
>
> > When I try to insert with the "current" constant, as in:
> >
> > herboris=> INSERT INTO cart (cartid, clientid, invdate, paydate) VALUES
> > herboris-> (4469858, 2, 'current_timestamp', 'now');
> >
> > I get the following message:
> >
> > ERROR: Bad date external representation 'current_timestamp'
>
> current_timestamp shouldn't be quoted AFAIK. It's trying to read the
> string current_timestamp as a date value.
>
>

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Thanks,

Mark