Thanks, Tom. That was it. After I ran analyze on the table, the error
disappeared.
David J. Rericha
OSS, LLC
Projects Manager
563-650-5446
On 12/28/2010 08:45 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> [ please keep the list cc'd ]
>
> David Rericha <d.rericha@healthcareoss.com> writes:
>
>> I am truly typing the date as a literal. It turned out that I did have
>> a date of year 2010000, which would have been out of range, but I
>> changed it. But I still get the error.
>>
> Hmm. Try re-running ANALYZE on the table. I'm thinking that maybe
> (a) the way-out-of-line date is still in the statistical histogram, and
> (b) the planner is using date-to-timestamp coercion while trying to
> estimate the selectivity of the <= condition.
>
> regards, tom lane
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