| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Dmitry Tkach <dmitry(at)openratings(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Denis Zaitsev <zzz(at)anda(dot)ru>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Very strange 'now' behaviour in nested triggers. |
| Date: | 2003-07-28 16:52:41 |
| Message-ID: | 15184.1059411161@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Dmitry Tkach <dmitry(at)openratings(dot)com> writes:
> Why not get rid of 'now' alltogether? Are there any cases when it is
> actually useful as opposed to now()?
Data entry. You don't necessarily have the option to invoke a function,
as opposed to just sending a string for the datetime input parser.
(It would be rather difficult for an application to allow this one case
without permitting SQL-injection attacks, I'd think.)
regards, tom lane
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