--- On Mon, 12/3/07, Andrei Kovalevski <andyk@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Also all Microsoft applications notify ODBC driver
> by setting additional parameter during initialization. I
> think ADO requests 'inifinity' value as SQL_C_CHAR and sure
> it doesn't expect it to be 'infinity'.
Actually, postgresql doesn't actually have a (+/-) infinity value. Notice:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-datetime.html#AEN4999
+infinity = 5874897 AD
-infinity = 4713 BC
so the problem must be that ADO doesn't know what to do with dates as small as 4713 BCE.