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From: Jeff Meredith <mer@miro.com>
Subject: Re: How to specify date befor 1970 in abstime?
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Date: Sun, 02 May 93 08:44:18 -0700
From: Jeff Meredith <mer@miro.com>

message <9304261034.AA05016@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> read as follows:

> As we defined the birth field as the abstime type, we cannot enter the
> date before 1970. Is there any solution to solve this problem?  Thanks.

unfortunately the abstime adt only allows dates from Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 GMT
to some time in the year 2038.  if you want dates outside this range you
might consider designing your own date adt.


jeff meredith
mer@miro.com