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On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 06:35:02PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Does the SQL standard have anything to say about CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in
> procedures?  Do we need another function that does advance on procedure
> commit?

I found a section in the SQL standards that talks about it, but I don't
understand it.  Can I quote the paragraph here?

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