Re: Error: Bad Timestamp Format

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 05:16:29PM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote:
> According to the FAQ and docs, this is caused by the date format being
> wrong, but the date format is the same on both installations:
>
> vendirza=# SHOW DATESTYLE;
> NOTICE:  DateStyle is ISO with US (NonEuropean) conventions
>
> vendirza=# SHOW DATESTYLE;
> NOTICE:  DateStyle is ISO with US (NonEuropean) conventions

Looks the same machine to me.

BTW, i don't know who thought of it but yyyy-dd-mm is a terrible format and
should be shot.

> I have checked the locale on both installations, and in both cases no
> locale is set.
>
> Can anyone suggest a solution?

Check the datestypes. Try setting it to european conventions, maybe that
will work better

> I am using pgsql v7.0.3, and the database was transferred by doing a raw
> transfer of the data/ directory from the first machine to the second.

Does pg_dump make a difference?

HTH,
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