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From Richard Broersma
Subject Re: How to get CURRENT_DATE in a pl/pgSQL function
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Msg-id AANLkTimTUkyiFR0-o90bTmRHwK3T13mZTgyOu3m-gYMH@mail.gmail.com
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In response to How to get CURRENT_DATE in a pl/pgSQL function  (Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>)
Responses Re: How to get CURRENT_DATE in a pl/pgSQL function  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Re: How to get CURRENT_DATE in a pl/pgSQL function  (Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>)
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu> wrote:

> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-CURRENT
>
> you can use CURRENT_DATE. When I try to use it in
> the following pl/pgSQL function it gives the error:

> BEGIN
>    curtime := 'CURRENT_DATE';
>    LOOP


I'm not "up" on my pl/pgSQL, but isn't CURRENT_DATE a literal value so
it shouldn't to be enclosed in single quotes?

Another idea would be to:  CAST( now() AS DATE )



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