From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Silke Trissl <trissl@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Using timestamp in function
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:06:55 -0400
Message-ID: <15686.1096992415@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4162BFCF.9090501@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
References: <4162BFCF.9090501@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Silke Trissl <trissl@informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
> I expected, that the variable curtime gets a new time value, each time
> the function is called (at least that is what I understood from the
> documentation). This works fine, if I test it with
> SELECT mylog_test(5, 'test');
> But as soon as I call the funtion from another function (which I need)
> the variable curtime does not change anymore.
"now" refers to the transaction start time. You can get at current time
of day with the timeofday() function.
regards, tom lane
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