If the year is very large, datetime formatting overflows its limits and
gives very weird results.  Either the formatting needs to be improved
or there should be an upper bound on the year.


bray=# select version();
                             version                              
------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 7.1beta1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.3
(1 row)


bray=#  select 'now'::datetime + '100000y'::interval;
      ?column?       
---------------------
 102001-01-13 22:128
(1 row)

bray=#  select 'now'::datetime + '1000000y'::interval;
      ?column?       
---------------------
 1002001-01-13 22:32
(1 row)
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Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:27:01 +0000
"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Bug in datetime formatting for very large years