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From Alban Hertroys
Subject Re: CURRENT_TIMESTAMP vs actual time
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Msg-id 4267CDF8.7060305@magproductions.nl
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In response to Re: CURRENT_TIMESTAMP vs actual time  (Thomas Hallgren <thhal@mailblocks.com>)
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Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> Why use timeofday() at all? Why not now(). It will return a timestamptz
> without casts.

For the same reason that the OP couldn't use CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. It
returns the timestamp of the start of the transaction.

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