From: A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: now() gives same time within the session
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:15:00 +0200
Message-ID: <20100712111500.GA14489@a-kretschmer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <418EC9BD4D7125488CCAC5C7C559A24803A9D0@MS10.lsc.net>
References: <418EC9BD4D7125488CCAC5C7C559A24803A9D0@MS10.lsc.net>
In response to Atul.Goel@globaldatapoint.com :
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I need to log the start and end time of the procedures in a table. But the
> start and end time are same. This is how I recreated the issue.
>
>
>
> create table test_time (time timestamp);
>
> delete from test_time;
>
> insert into test_time select now();
Use timeofday() instead, now() returns the transaction starting time.
BEGIN
test=*# select now();
now
-------------------------------
2010-07-12 13:13:28.907043+02
(1 row)
test=*# select timeofday();
timeofday
--------------------------------------
Mon Jul 12 13:13:36.187703 2010 CEST
(1 row)
test=*# select now();
now
-------------------------------
2010-07-12 13:13:28.907043+02
(1 row)
test=*#
Regards, Andreas
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