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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This has just been pointed out to me…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The user created a table with an incorrect date default, a result of bad typing…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">create table wrong(a integer4 not null not default, b ingresdate not null with default 0)\g<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">…and that worked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">They only found out about it when they went to use the table.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">insert into wrong(a) values (1)\g<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">E_US10CE '0' is not a valid date/time value.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">So, typically if we create a bad default the system objects at the create, which is desirable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">While I understand that checking the default date is valid in all input date formats would be nigh on impossible and better to allow the user to get
a usage error and get them to fix it, nonetheless zero can never be a legitimate ingresdate in any format I can think of.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">So is this a bug or just a case where the user has to get their own way out of this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Martin Bowes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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