Martin Würtele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) reports a bug with a severity of 1 The lower the number the more severe it is. Short Description timestamp handling in postgres 7.1 behaves strange Long Description version: 7.1release-4 of debian/woody when comparing timestamps i always get ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation 'm' Sample Code this works: select timestamp (content) from factversionelement where factid=100311 and elementname='newsdate'; timestamp ------------------------ 2010-01-02 16:00:00+01 (1 row) this does not: select factid from factversionelement where factid=100311 and elementname='newsdate' and timestamp (content) >= '2001-08-08'; ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation 'm' this also does not: select factid from factversionelement where factid=100311 and elementname='newsdate' and timestamp (content) >= timestamp('2001-08-08'); ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation 'm' No file was uploaded with this report ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl