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From: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, josh@agliodbs.com,
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] CURRENT_TIMESTAMP 
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:44:42 +0200
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:35:13 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
>If you want to change 'current_timestamp' to
>conform to a rather debatable reading of the spec, [...]

Well the spec may be debatable, but could you please explain why my
reading of the spec is debatable.  The spec says "during the execution
of the SQL-statement".  You know English is not my first language, but
as far as I have learned "during" does not mean "at any time before".

Servus
 Manfred