Hello all, this is my first posting to this list. I have been using MySQL for a few years with a web application for displaying my genealogy database, a FoxPro database from The Master Genealogist from which I'm dumping a subset with a Perl script and the DBD::XBase module. I'm now in the process of developing my own genealogy program, and I have been absolutely thrilled by the prospect of using PostgreSQL for this venture.
My first stumbling block is this: How do I store incomplete or partial dates in PostgreSQL? I ran a Google search on 'postgresql "partial dates"' and came up with this thread as the only significant match: <url:http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2003-01/msg00888.php> In MySQL, the checking on dates is very relaxed, so it's totally legal to enter a date as '1731-00-00', and let your own program logic decide that this means just the year 1731. Do I have to make my own data type to store and manipulate partial dates, or has somebody already done it? Or is there a way to use relaxed date checking in PostgreSQL? -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
