From: Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>
To: Richard Broersma <richard.broersma@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to get CURRENT_DATE in a pl/pgSQL function
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:27:21 -0500
Message-ID: <20100518192721.GS3892@aart.is.rice.edu> (raw)
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To follow-up,
It works using 'now' and I assume that since curtime is
of type DATE that the assignment casts the return automatically
to type DATE. Thank you for the ideas.
Regards,
Ken
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:12:46PM -0700, Richard Broersma wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu> wrote:
>
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-CURRENT
> >
> > you can use CURRENT_DATE. When I try to use it in
> > the following pl/pgSQL function it gives the error:
>
> > BEGIN
> > ? ?curtime := 'CURRENT_DATE';
> > ? ?LOOP
>
>
> I'm not "up" on my pl/pgSQL, but isn't CURRENT_DATE a literal value so
> it shouldn't to be enclosed in single quotes?
>
> Another idea would be to: CAST( now() AS DATE )
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Richard Broersma Jr.
>
> Visit the Los Angeles PostgreSQL Users Group (LAPUG)
> http://pugs.postgresql.org/lapug
>
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