Re: BUG #5672: Can't input julian days BC

"Benjamin Gigot" <therealvaldor@hotmail.com> writes:
> After trying to enter Confucius birthday (28th September 551BC) I had the
> following error :

> Query failed: ERROR: date/time field value out of range: "J1520447"

Hmm ... this did work in versions before 8.4, but got broken as a
side-effect of tightening up error checking for other cases.  It
looks like we need to tweak ValidateDate() so that it won't throw
an error for BC dates when Julian notation was used.  Thanks for
the report!

            regards, tom lane