Re: [PORTS] 'current'::datetime - Mailing list pgsql-ports

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: [PORTS] 'current'::datetime
Date
Msg-id 3801FE61.F4EB473F@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to 'current'::datetime  (Peter Schaefer <schaefer@cys.de>)
List pgsql-ports
> Excuse me does the 'current'::datetime work ?

Sure. But the behavior one might want from 'current' requires that
printing or representing it in its raw form preserves its
"current-ness". If you want 'current' instantiated into a time, you
have to do some math, or some other operation which will nail it to
the time you evaluate it. Here is an example:

postgres=> select datetime 'now' as now,
postgres-> datetime 'current' as current,
postgres-> datetime 'current' + timespan '0 sec' as equiv;
now                   |current|equiv
----------------------+-------+----------------------
1999-10-11 15:09:58+00|current|1999-10-11 15:09:58+00
(1 row)

Hope this helps. Good luck.

                    - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California

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