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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’m trying to load a shapefile into a PostGIS database, using shp2pgsql and psql.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s failing because a couple of the sql insert statements have date fields containing ‘0’.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>ERROR: date/time field value out of range: "0"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>HINT: Perhaps you need a different "datestyle" setting.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What I need is for these features to be inserted with NULL date fields, instead of ‘0’.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Currently, I’m running psql on the generated .sql file, capturing the output. I then search the output to identify the problem statement, delete it from the generated file, and then run psql on it again, until there are no errors. I save the lines I deleted in another file, and then hand-edit them, and insert them separately.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is tiresome, tedious, and slow.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyone have any better ideas?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>