Re: Should we document how column DEFAULT expressions work? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, Jul  5, 2024 at 04:50:32PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Also interestingly, "now" without quotes requires parentheses to make it
> > a function call:
> 
> I'm not sure why you find that surprising, or why you think that
> 'now()'::timestamptz is a function call.  (Well, it is a call of
> timestamptz_in, but not of the SQL function now().)  Documentation
> that is equally confused won't help any.

Well, 'now()' certainly _looks_ like a function call, though it isn't. 
The fact that 'now()'::timestamptz and 'now'::timestamptz generate
volatile results via a function call was my point.

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