From: Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>
To: Rob Wultsch <wultsch@gmail.com>
Cc: A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: now() gives same time within the session
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:26:52 -0500
Message-ID: <20100712132652.GD11581@aart.is.rice.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil1a9TlztQSZEGuCeI0QUc5dq7yj84fQFmh851O@mail.gmail.com>
References: <418EC9BD4D7125488CCAC5C7C559A24803A9D0@MS10.lsc.net>
<20100712111500.GA14489@a-kretschmer.de>
<AANLkTil1a9TlztQSZEGuCeI0QUc5dq7yj84fQFmh851O@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 06:11:31AM -0700, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:15 AM, A. Kretschmer
> <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> Is this part of the SQL standard?
>
No, see section 9.9.4 of the manual.
Cheers,
Ken
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