Re: date ranges

On Jul 31, 2007, at 11:26 , jo wrote:

> I would like to know if there's a simple way to customize the range
> for dates,
> to avoid people insert dates before 1900 and after 2020, for example.

You can use a check constraint on the date column, e.g.,

CREATE TABLE dates
(
     a_date date PRIMARY KEY
         CHECK(a_date BETWEEN '1900-01-01'::date AND '2020-12-31')
);

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net