[DERBY-6458] The Reference Manual should state that the year, month, and day components of a timestamp must be positive integers.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 10.11.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 10.11.1.1
• Component/s: Documentation
• Urgency: Normal
• Assignee: Camilla Haase
• Reporter: Richard N. Hillegas
• Created: 23/Jan/14 20:58
• Updated: 03/Sep/14 11:52
• Resolved: 23/Jan/14 23:00

Description

There is no year 0, month 0, or day 0 in the notation scheme used by Derby timestamps. We should state this in the Reference Guide section titled "TIMESTAMP data type". The following script shows this:

connect 'jdbc:derby:memory:db;create=true';

create table t( a timestamp );

-- fails because year, month, and day must be positive integers
insert into t values ( '0000-00-00 00:00:00' );
insert into t values ( '0001-00-00 00:00:00' );
insert into t values ( '0001-01-00 00:00:00' );

-- succeeds
insert into t values ( '0001-01-01 00:00:00' );

select * from t;