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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Function with now() | time 'now' | etc...
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In response to Function with now() | time 'now' | etc...  (edipoelder@ig.com.br)
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edipoelder@ig.com.br writes:
>     It doesn't getting different times on each execution. I also tried put 
> "timestamp 'now'" insted "now()". What am I doing wrong? 

now() is defined to return the time of the start of the current
transaction.  It won't change value inside a transaction.  See
http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-CURRENT
        regards, tom lane

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