> Just discovered that column::date works fine but to_date(column, 'DD.MM.YY')
> causes the problem. I was trying to write portable SQL, but never mind!

Portable (as in SQL9x) would be

  cast(column as date)

which is also accepted by PostgreSQL...

                 - Thomas

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