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tj0

I’m currently trying to store dates in Postgresql that are before ISO8601 ‘year 0’ and am running into issues. Postgresql stores dates internally as JD and can correctly insert/remove dates. I’m storing the date generally as NaiveDateTime and it works fine for anything > year 0.

For instance, the following query works fine in SQL.

sql> insert into table1 set t = '1000-01-01BC 00:00:00'; 

However, trying to load this in Ecto doesn’t seem to work as we’re referring to a calendar function that doesn’t have any representation of times before 0.

    (stdlib 3.13) calendar.erl:257: :calendar.last_day_of_the_month/2
    (stdlib 3.13) calendar.erl:133: :calendar.date_to_gregorian_days/3
    (stdlib 3.13) calendar.erl:155: :calendar.datetime_to_gregorian_seconds/1
    (postgrex 0.15.8) lib/postgrex/extensions/timestamp.ex:48: Postgrex.Extensions.Timestamp.encode_elixir/1
    (postgrex 0.15.8) lib/postgrex/type_module.ex:897: Postgrex.DefaultTypes.encode_params/3
    (postgrex 0.15.8) lib/postgrex/query.ex:75: DBConnection.Query.Postgrex.Query.encode/3

-spec datetime_to_gregorian_seconds(DateTime) -> Seconds when
      DateTime :: datetime(),
      Seconds :: non_neg_integer().
datetime_to_gregorian_seconds({Date, Time}) ->
    ?SECONDS_PER_DAY*date_to_gregorian_days(Date) +
        time_to_seconds(Time).

What’s the appropriate way for dealing with this? As far as I know, erlang/elixir doesn’t have any methodology for monkey-patching, the only thing I could think of is to store these dates in an alternative format as a workaround. Any thoughts?

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kip

ex_cldr Core Team

I think thats a bug in Postgrex (I will open an issue and a PR) since t:NaiveDateTime supports negative years I think its reasonable that Postgrex should.

As an alternative I would suggest implementing your own Ecto custom type (if you’re using Ecto) so you can do your own encoding.

EDIT: This issue is already on the Postgrex issue tracker

tj0

tj0 OP

Awesome. I looked through the code and I patched the library in this branch which could serve as a starting point for a PR. It seems to be working (at least for me).

It appears to me only two files needed modification, but I suppose the patch could be bigger to cleanup all instances of :calendar. And I have no idea what Jose is talking about “internal rata die” representation, so I’m just going to use the branch for now and watch and learn.

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