Wells:
The now() function returns not only the current date, but the current
time. So, now() - 24 hours returns yesterday at this time. But,
yesterday at 00:00:00 is not greater than or equal to yesterday at the
current time (unless, of course, you happened to run this at precisely
Bart:
Failing a more definitive diagnostic approach, I suggest that you post
your entire pgstartup.log rather than just the error message. My guess
is that the position in that log where the error occurs will give folks
who are more familiar with the startup sequence a reasonable idea of
Postgresql Community:
We have an Java/JDBC application that runs against a range of versions
of Postgresql from 7.4 though 8.3 and are now moving to 8.4.
Because our databases will never approach 4GB in size we still use OIDs
... that is, in newer versions of Postgresql we create OIDs on all
Tom Lane et al:
Thank you for your comments and observations. In particular, you make
me realize that I likely don't know how the JDBC connection is handling
things. I find that I often tend to assume that what I see and use on
the interactive command like is exactly what is coming across
