Brendan Jurd wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I propose to add an internal function gettime() that transparently
> returns the current system time, as a timestamptz with maximum
> precision.
>
> Calling gettime() would be a more elegant approach than calling
> timeofday() and converting it to a timestamp, and avoids some of the
> potential problems in that conversion (such as "Sat" being
> misinterpreted as an Australian timezone).
>
> I'm open to alternate suggestions for the name of the function.
>
> If there are no objections, I'll start cooking up a patch right away.
We already have a TODO for this:* Add transaction_timestamp(), statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp() functionality
CurrentCURRENT_TIMESTAMP returns the start time of the current transaction, and gettimeofday() returns the wallclock
time.This will make time reporting more consistent and will allow reporting of the statement start time.
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