Re: overriding current_timestamp - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On mån, 2012-02-27 at 11:40 -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 
> >> I use it for NOW() all the time.
> > 
> > But it won't work for current_timestamp.
> 
> Why not? Not challenging your assertion here, just curious why it’s different.

Because it's not actually a function, it's hardcoded in the grammar to
call pg_catalog.now().