Postgres datetime() error

[Derek Atkins]

upgrade to 1.8.9  -- this has LONG since been fixed!

-derek

Justin Kamerman <justin at kaleco.net> writes:

> I have GnuCash up and running on RedHat 9.0 with the following packages
> installed
>
> gnucash-1.8.1-3
> gnucash-backend-postgres-1.8.1-3
>
> on my front end and Postgres 7.4.2 on the database server. I can save an
> empty account register, ie no accounts, to the database. This creates a
> new database and tables in Postgres as expected. When I add a new
> account and try to save to the database GnuCash complains:
>
> The server at URL postgres://<mydbserver>/<databasename> experienced an
> error or encountered bad or corrupt data.
>
> The Postgres log reflects:
>
> ERROR:  function datetime("unknown") does not exist
> HINT:  No function matches the given name and argument types. You may
> need to add explicit type casts.
> ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of
> transaction block
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions what my problem is or is this perhaps a
> bug ?
>
> Regards
>
> Justin Kamerman
>
>
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