Re: Junk date getting uploaded into date field

On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 04:14 -0800, bsreejithin wrote:

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to achieve what you want.... bdate needs to be defined as a date, not a
string.

test=# create table temptabl(bdate date);
CREATE TABLE
Time: 239.358 ms
test=# insert into temptabl values('33-OCT-2013');
ERROR:  date/time field value out of range: "33-OCT-2013"
LINE 1: insert into temptabl values('33-OCT-2013');                                   ^
HINT:  Perhaps you need a different "datestyle" setting.
Time: 0.288 ms
test=#