Re: CURRENT_TIMESTAMP breaking with 7.1->7.2 dump/import

This turned out to have an easy work around:

perl -pi.bak -e "s/'current'/CURRENT_TIMESTAMP/" my_dump.dmp
   -mark 

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> 
> Hello and thanks for the Postgres team for another fine release of
> Postgres. I'm working on doing some test dump/imports from Postgres 7.1
> to Postgres 7.2.
> 
> I'm using a 7.1 pg_dumpall, and a 7.2 psql to import.
> 
> It's hanging on this error:
> ##########################
> CREATE TABLE "mail_history" (
>         "mail_id" integer DEFAULT
> nextval('mail_history_mail_id_seq'::text) NOT NULL,
>         "subject" character varying(200),
>         "body" text,
>         "group_id" integer,
>         "date_created" date DEFAULT date(('current'::"timestamp" +
> '00:00'::"interval")) NOT NULL,
>         "n_sent" integer DEFAULT 0
> );
> ERROR:  Bad timestamp external representation 'current'
> ##################
> 
> The use of 'current' is clearly not suported as stated in the upgrade
> docs. What's frustrating is that the SQL I used to create the table WAS
> valid, using the standard CURRENT_DATE function, but Postgres internally
> connverted this into this broken format. Here was my original create statement:
> #########
> create table mail_history (
>         mail_id                 serial,
>         subject                 varchar(200),
>         body                   text,
>         group_id                  integer,
>         date_created               date not null default CURRENT_DATE,
>         n_sent                  integer default 0
> );
> #######
> 
> This is from an old project. It might have started in Postgres 6.5.x and
> then been imported into Postgres 7.0 and then Postgres 7.1. Is there a
> way that I help coax Postgres into providing better support for this
> kind of legacy data?
> 
>    -mark
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