Thread: creating constants in postgres

creating constants in postgres

From

"Thomas F. O'Connell"

Date:

26 April 2001, 20:56:04

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

-tfo

Re: creating constants in postgres

From

Peter Eisentraut

Date:

27 April 2001, 14:53:24

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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