Re: Fwd: Re: timestamp/function question

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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