Re: now() gives same time within the session - Mailing list pgsql-performance

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 06:11:31AM -0700, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:15 AM, A. Kretschmer
> <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com> wrote:
> > In response to Atul.Goel@globaldatapoint.com :
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I need to log the start and end time of the procedures in a table. But the
> >> start and end time are same. This is how I recreated the issue.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> create table test_time (time timestamp);
> >>
> >> delete from ?test_time;
> >>
> >> insert into test_time select now();
> >
> >
> > Use timeofday() instead, now() returns the transaction starting time.
>
>
> Is this part of the SQL standard?
>
No, see section 9.9.4 of the manual.

Cheers,
Ken