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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Ambiguous behaviour of age(timestamp)
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Msg-id 18340.1101931276@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Ambiguous behaviour of age(timestamp)  ("Kouber Saparev" <kouber@saparev.com>)
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"Kouber Saparev" <kouber@saparev.com> writes:
> I think the documentation is misleading, because AGE(timestamp) is actually
> converted to AGE(current_date, timestamp), and not to AGE(now(), timestamp).

Well, it says "Subtract from today", which I'd interpret as meaning
"current_date" not "now", but I made it say "Subtract from current_date"
just to be sure.

            regards, tom lane

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