From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
To: Kerv <keresztes_m@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: now() in loop statement
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:17:28 -0400
Message-ID: <3F77F8A8.10229.33B6CEFF@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bl9a9i$15g5$1@news.hub.org>
On 29 Sep 2003 at 15:58, Kerv wrote:
> What is wrong with this function because the mytime variable contain the
> same value in each iteration:
From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/functions-
datetime.html:
It is important to realize that CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and related
functions return the start time of the current transaction; their
values do not change during the transaction. timeofday() returns the
wall clock time and does advance during transactions.
--
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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