"wishy wishy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> we have a PostgreSQL 7.2.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96
> installation on pogo linux 7.2
> we are facing a data problem when we do the following
> select to_char(to_date('1969-10-22','YYYY-MM-DD'),'YYYY-MM-DD');

> ERROR:  Unable to convert date to tm

Recent versions of glibc broke mktime() for dates before 1970.
There is a workaround for this silliness in Postgres 7.2.3.

                        regards, tom lane

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