<sect1 id="y2k"> <title>Y2K Statement</title> <note>  <title>Author</title>  <para>   Written by    <ulink url="mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu">Thomas Lockhart</ulink>   on 1998-10-22.  </para> </note> <para>  The <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> Global Development Team provides  the <productname>Postgres</productname> software code tree as a public service,  without warranty and without liability for it's behavior or performance.  However, at the time of writing: </para> <itemizedlist>  <listitem>   <para>    The author of this statement, a volunteer on the <productname>Postgres</productname>    support team since November, 1996, is not aware of     any problems in the <productname>Postgres</productname> code base related    to time transitions around Jan 1, 2000 (Y2K).   </para>  </listitem>  <listitem>   <para>    The author of this statement is not aware of any reports of Y2K problems     uncovered in regression testing    or in other field use of recent or current versions    of <productname>Postgres</productname>. We might have expected    to hear about problems if they existed, given the installed base and    the active participation of users on the support mailing lists.   </para>  </listitem>  <listitem>   <para>    To the best of the author's knowledge, the    assumptions Postgres makes about dates specified with a two-digit year    are documented in the current     <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/user/datatype.htm">User's Guide</ulink>    in the chapter on data types.    For two-digit years, the significant transition year is 1970, not 2000;    e.g. <quote>70-01-01</quote> is interpreted as <quote>1970-01-01</quote>,    whereas <quote>69-01-01</quote> is interpreted as <quote>2069-01-01</quote>.   </para>  </listitem>  <listitem>   <para>    Any Y2K problems in the underlying OS related to obtaining "the    current time" may propagate into apparent Y2K problems in    <productname>Postgres</productname>.   </para>  </listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>  Refer to   <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/year2000.html">The Gnu Project</ulink>  and  <ulink url="http://language.perl.com/news/y2k.html">The Perl Institute</ulink>  for further discussion of Y2K issues, particularly  as it relates to open source, no fee software. </para></sect1><!-- Keep this comment at the end of the fileLocal variables:mode: sgmlsgml-omittag:nilsgml-shorttag:tsgml-minimize-attributes:nilsgml-always-quote-attributes:tsgml-indent-step:1sgml-indent-data:tsgml-parent-document:nilsgml-default-dtd-file:"./reference.ced"sgml-exposed-tags:nilsgml-local-catalogs:"/usr/lib/sgml/catalog"sgml-local-ecat-files:nilEnd:-->