>>  Jan 11 02:33:00 ox pgsql[1531]: [22-1] ERROR:  42804: column "creating_date"
>>  	is of type timestamp with time zone but expression is of type character
>>  	varying
>>  Jan 11 16:15:52 ox pgsql[650]: [18-2] HINT:  You will need to rewrite or cast
>>  	the expression.
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>>Installed are postgresql-client-8.0.5, postgresql-jdbc-8.1.404 and
>>postgresql- server-8.0.5_1.
> 
> 
> quoting from my own FreeBSD install howto:
> 
>   "There is [/usr/ports/]databases/postgresql-jdbc, but this is
>    version 8.0 and still seems to have a few problems so I used
>    pg74.215.jdbc3.jar from jdbc.postgresql.org which works fine with
>    either Postgresql 7.4 or 8.0."
> 
> http://homepage.univie.ac.at/peter.schober/OX_on_FreeBSD.html#java
> 

Thanks, works like a charm now.

I forgot that I wanted to give the ports' jdbc version a shot as there was some 
sort of update (at least more recent than the latest change of the how-to).

Thanks
  Michael