Thomas Lockhart writes:
> > In a transaction until you commit your transaction through a jdbc
> > connection, each time you use the Current_timestamp (or 'now'), the
> > timestamps is always the same, and when your transaction is very long you
> > have undesirable effect.
>
> This is not a bug, but the behavior required by SQL9x afaicr.
AFAIK, this is PostgreSQL bugward compatibility. SQL says that
current_timestamp returns the "current timestamp", which you can interpret
any way you want to.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
