On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> * convert the value to Unix timestamp notation (subtract off enough
> days to make 0 correspond to 1/1/1970, then multiply by 24*60*60).
> * coerce the resulting integer to abstime and then to whatever
> datatype you want to use (timestamp or dat
I have a legacy database that I am porting to PostgreSQL. One of the
fields is an integer column that actually represents a date. It is
represented as the number of days since July 1, 1867.
What I am wondering is: Is there a function or other means of getting this
integer converted into a real
