Re: Converting a timestamp to a date when it contains nulls.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-07-24T03:21:51Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
"Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca> writes:
>>> Shouldn't all casts be able to handle the case where it is NULL?
>> 
>> Yup, it's a bug.  It's fixed in current sources.

> Is there a patch available that I can apply to the 7.0.2 source to 
> fix the problem? Or is there going to be a 7.0.3 that I should wait 
> for?

Just look for the place where the error is being spit out (somewhere in
backend/utils/adt/) and change the "elog(ERROR, ...)" call into
"return NULL".  Should work, but I haven't tried it in 7.0.

			regards, tom lane