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To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 16:55:42 -0400
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On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 04:50:32PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
Well, 'now()' certainly _looks_ like a function call, though it isn't.
The fact that 'now()'::timestamptz and 'now'::timestamptz generate
volatile results via a function call was my point.
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