Thread: Fwd: Re: timestamp/function question

Fwd: Re: timestamp/function question

From
Soma Interesting
Date:
>blah blah blah <snip>
>
>...and that all meant what? The postgres manual is open to much
>interpretation to anyone new trying to understand its contents. Combine
>that with documentation that's still not written, or broken across several
>different sections (programmer, user, admin, etc) and a search engine
>which returns absolute crap.... well I guess us new users can just go use
>MySQL.
>
>as far as I can tell the above sounds like a complicated  work-around to a
>bug, but maybe you'll be kind enough to correct me on this...?

BETTER YET!

edit my example code so it works and post it to this list so everyone else
can have a function that uses ''now'' as actually "this very moment in
time", rather than "the moment the main parser made 'now' a constant".

Yeesh!


Re: Fwd: Re: timestamp/function question

From
will trillich
Date:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:46:42PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote:
>
> >blah blah blah <snip>
> >
> >...and that all meant what? The postgres manual is open to much
> >interpretation to anyone new trying to understand its contents. Combine
> >that with documentation that's still not written, or broken across several
> >different sections (programmer, user, admin, etc) and a search engine
> >which returns absolute crap.... well I guess us new users can just go use
> >MySQL.
> >
> >as far as I can tell the above sounds like a complicated  work-around to a
> >bug, but maybe you'll be kind enough to correct me on this...?
>
> BETTER YET!
>
> edit my example code so it works and post it to this list so everyone else
> can have a function that uses ''now'' as actually "this very moment in
> time", rather than "the moment the main parser made 'now' a constant".
>
> Yeesh!

try

    \df time

and see what's available. notably,

    select timeofday(),timenow();

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