I have run into a situation in Ruby on Rails-3.0.5 wherein the framework attempts to set unreferenced columns to their default values as extracted from the DBMS. However, it cannot handle infinity as a datetime class, which evidently is what AR maps timestamps to, and so attempts to insert NULL instead. As there is a NOT NULL constraint on that column the INSERT always fails.
How would one pass a value of 'infinity' to PostgreSQL in this case. Am I constrained to hand craft an SQL INSERT query? I have raised the issue on the Rails Core list but if a solution to this problem is known to anyone here then I would like to learn of it. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
