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  1. Bug with NOW

    Gena Gurchonok <gena@rt.mipt.ru> — 1999-10-02T14:55:05Z

    Hello.

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Your name               : Gena Gurchonok
Your email address      : gena@rt.mipt.ru
System Configuration---------------------
Architecture            :
Operating System        : Linux 2.2.9 ELF
PostgreSQL version      : PostgreSQL-6.5
Compiler used           : pgcc-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
Please enter a FULL description of your problem:


There was one moment when action like this cause fun error.
'now' returned value :
"Fri 01 Oct 13:35:60.00 1999 MSD"

Note that trying to use this string to COMPARE with DATETIME field
cause PSQL error - Bad datetime external representation

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Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
concise reproducible example, if at all possible: 


INSERT INTO mytable (field_datetime) VALUES('now');

do this often and you can obtain such result.


Gena