Re: problem with timeofday() function in cvs PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Pavel Stehule wrote:

> In this version I can't convert returned value to time. timeofday() return
> text. I need convert to timestamp before. It is normal behavior? I
> expected timestamp as returned type.

It is documented to return a string for historical reasons:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-CURRENT

You probably want now() instead of that function.

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/Dennis