From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Use of 'now'
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:39:16 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200111151639.fAFGdGb03603@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12802.1005842176@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> > I don't think this is a good idea. If someone really relied on 'current'
> > for his application, substituting 'now' for it is not going to make things
> > better. If it's done silently it will definitely make things worse.
>
> I hadn't thought about it, but I believe Peter is right. Rejecting
> 'current' is better than silently translating it to 'now'. We have
> removed this feature and we shouldn't try to paper over the fact.
My only question is how many people were using current thinking it
functioned as 'now'? Was current ever a desired feature?
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