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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?
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In response to Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Also interestingly, "now" without quotes requires parentheses to make it
> a function call:

I'm not sure why you find that surprising, or why you think that
'now()'::timestamptz is a function call.  (Well, it is a call of
timestamptz_in, but not of the SQL function now().)  Documentation
that is equally confused won't help any.

            regards, tom lane

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