I use pg_dump to back up my database. I recently changed one of my date
fields to have a default value as such:
firstcontactdate date default current_date,
If I pg_dump the database and reload the CREATE statment for this table
fails. pg_dump used this defintion:
"firstcontactdate" "date" DEFAULT date 'current'::datetime + '0 sec'),
PSQL reports:
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "'"
I can work around this problem by extracting the offending the table create
statement from the script, pre-creating the table with a corrected
definition and ignoring the error when the script tries to create the table.
I don't want to edit the script directly because it is 50MB and growing.
Fortunately the schema statements are all at the front so I can grab them
with "head -1000".
This is Postgres 6.4.0. Is this a known problem? Has it been fixed?
Bryan White
ArcaMax Inc.
Yorktown VA
www.arcamax.com