Re: Now() in a function - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Gaetano Mendola
Subject Re: Now() in a function
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Msg-id 3FAAD6F0.4080907@bigfoot.com
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In response to Now() in a function  ("sTesting" <stesting@hotmail.com>)
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sTesting wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I have a big problem, i wrote a very long function that is taking so 
> much time. inside this function i added few debugging steps to find 
> which section is taking most of the time, but all the created records 
> have the same time in them, the time where the fuction begins.
> I tried to different methods:
> INSERT INTO f_error (error_id, creation_date)
> VALUES (nextval(''s_f_error_id''), now());
>  
> INSERT INTO f_error (error_id, creation_date)
> VALUES (nextval(''s_f_error_id''), ''now'');

now() give you the time when the transaction started,
so what you see is the intended behavior, in your case you must use:
timeofday().


Regards
Gaetano Mendola



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