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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rowley <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: James Coleman <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:50:32 -0400
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Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> Also interestingly, "now" without quotes requires parentheses to make it
> a function call:

I'm not sure why you find that surprising, or why you think that
'now()'::timestamptz is a function call.  (Well, it is a call of
timestamptz_in, but not of the SQL function now().)  Documentation
that is equally confused won't help any.

			regards, tom lane

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