BUG #2882: jdbc driver: date returned from a stored proc is incorrect

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      2882
Logged by:          Ravi
Email address:      ravitx12@yahoo.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.4
Operating system:   Linux RHEL 3
Description:        jdbc driver: date returned from a stored proc is
incorrect
Details:

This is a PostgreSQL driver issue.

The value returned should be Jan 1 1900, instead it returns Jan 2 1900.

The failure could be seen only on RHEL3 and not RHEL4.

Documented.

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 3) the milliseconds
returned is as follows

-2209028400000 = -25567.458333333333333333333333333 = Jan 1 1900

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 3) the milliseconds
returned is as follows
-2208952800000 = -25566.583333333333333333333333333 = Jan 2 1900

Negative indicates before Jan 1 1970.

Store Procedure used -

create or replace function proc_test_dt1 (a in date) returns date as'

begin

delete from test_dt;

insert into test_dt values(a);

return a;

end;

'

language 'plpgsql'

Table was created as follows:

create table test_dt(datefld date);

The inserted value looks fine.