"Wellie Chao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using DBI 1.48 and DBD::Pg 1.42 (the programming language is obviously > Perl) to connect to PostgreSQL 8.0.0. The following statements cause > problems:
> 2005-06-17 16:21:41 EDT LOG: statement: select * from reservation_tbl where > room_id = $1 and (start_dt, end_dt) overlaps (timestamp $2, timestamp $3) > 2005-06-17 16:21:41 EDT ERROR: syntax error at or near "$2" at character > 93 The above is not valid SQL --- the notation "timestamp x" is only legal when x is a simple string literal. I think you need to complain to the DBI or DBD::Pg folk, if their code is generating this query. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org