diff --git a/app/models/queries/operators/date_limits.rb b/app/models/queries/operators/date_limits.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..51f6ad440b93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/models/queries/operators/date_limits.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#-- copyright
+# OpenProject is an open source project management software.
+# Copyright (C) the OpenProject GmbH
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.
+#
+# OpenProject is a fork of ChiliProject, which is a fork of Redmine. The copyright follows:
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Jean-Philippe Lang
+# Copyright (C) 2010-2013 the ChiliProject Team
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
+#
+# See COPYRIGHT and LICENSE files for more details.
+#++
+
+module Queries::Operators
+  module DateLimits
+    # Technically dates in PostgreSQL can be up to 5874897 AD, but limit to
+    # timestamp range, as dates are used to query for timestamps too
+    #
+    # https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.html
+    PG_DATE_FROM = ::Date.new(-4713, 1, 1)
+    PG_DATE_TO_EXCLUSIVE = ::Date.new(294276 + 1, 1, 1)
+
+    def date_too_small?(date)
+      date < PG_DATE_FROM
+    end
+
+    def date_too_big?(date)
+      date >= PG_DATE_TO_EXCLUSIVE
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/models/queries/operators/date_range_clauses.rb b/app/models/queries/operators/date_range_clauses.rb
index 924cfbd7b3a1..81e9adaf5233 100644
--- a/app/models/queries/operators/date_range_clauses.rb
+++ b/app/models/queries/operators/date_range_clauses.rb
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 
 module Queries::Operators
   module DateRangeClauses
+    include DateLimits
+
     # Returns a SQL clause for a date or datetime field for a relative range from
     # the end of the day of yesterday + from until the end of today + to.
     def relative_date_range_clause(table, field, from, to)
@@ -45,11 +47,25 @@ def date_range_clause(table, field, from, to)
       s = []
 
       if from
-        s << ("#{table}.#{field} > '%s'" % [quoted_date_from_utc(from.yesterday)])
+        s << case
+             when date_too_small?(from)
+               "1 = 1"
+             when date_too_big?(from)
+               "1 <> 1"
+             else
+               "#{table}.#{field} > '#{quoted_date_from_utc(from.yesterday)}'"
+             end
       end
 
       if to
-        s << ("#{table}.#{field} <= '%s'" % [quoted_date_from_utc(to)])
+        s << case
+             when date_too_small?(to)
+               "1 <> 1"
+             when date_too_big?(to)
+               "1 = 1"
+             else
+               "#{table}.#{field} <= '#{quoted_date_from_utc(to)}'"
+             end
       end
 
       s.join(" AND ")
diff --git a/app/models/queries/operators/datetime_range_clauses.rb b/app/models/queries/operators/datetime_range_clauses.rb
index b9a248f8dc72..c754716fd2a1 100644
--- a/app/models/queries/operators/datetime_range_clauses.rb
+++ b/app/models/queries/operators/datetime_range_clauses.rb
@@ -28,15 +28,31 @@
 
 module Queries::Operators
   module DatetimeRangeClauses
+    include DateLimits
+
     def datetime_range_clause(table, field, from, to)
       s = []
 
       if from
-        s << ("#{table}.#{field} >= '%s'" % [connection.quoted_date(from)])
+        s << case
+             when date_too_small?(from)
+               "1 = 1"
+             when date_too_big?(from)
+               "1 <> 1"
+             else
+               "#{table}.#{field} >= '#{connection.quoted_date(from)}'"
+             end
       end
 
       if to
-        s << ("#{table}.#{field} <= '%s'" % [connection.quoted_date(to)])
+        s << case
+             when date_too_small?(to)
+               "1 <> 1"
+             when date_too_big?(to)
+               "1 = 1"
+             else
+               "#{table}.#{field} <= '#{connection.quoted_date(to)}'"
+             end
       end
 
       s.join(" AND ")