From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Use of 'now'
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:46:32 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200111140246.fAE2kWE17608@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4537.1005704839@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > This seems wrong to me. What does it mean when it says 'current' is
> > resolved every time the value is retrieved?
>
> Nothing of interest anymore, since 'current' has been removed as of 7.2.
> However, Thomas has yet to commit any docs updates for his recent
> datetime-related changes ... including that one ...
Seems it is still in there somewhere:
test=> create table bb (x timestamp default 'current', y int);
CREATE
test=> insert into bb (y) values (1);
INSERT 16591 1
test=> select * from bb;
x | y
-------------------------------+---
2001-11-13 21:45:22.473896-05 | 1
(1 row)
Do you mean that 'current' is now the same as 'now'? :-)
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