Dmitry Tkach <dmitry@openratings.com> writes:
> Why not get rid of 'now' alltogether? Are there any cases when it is
> actually useful as opposed to now()?
Data entry. You don't necessarily have the option to invoke a function,
as opposed to just sending a string for the datetime input parser.
(It would be rather difficult for an application to allow this one case
without permitting SQL-injection attacks, I'd think.)
regards, tom lane
