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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: creating constants in postgres
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In response to creating constants in postgres  ("Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@monsterlabs.com>)
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Thomas F. O'Connell writes:

> is there in postgres a way to create a constant like CURRENT_DATE for
> general use?

Those things are just functions with a special syntax.  No, it's not
easily possible to create more such functions, but it's easy to create
regular functions.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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