Re: transction_timestamp() inside of procedures

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 03:01:31PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 06:35:02PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Does the SQL standard have anything to say about CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in
> > procedures?  Do we need another function that does advance on procedure
> > commit?
>
> I found a section in the SQL standards that talks about it, but I don't
> understand it.  Can I quote the paragraph here?
>
>
> I've seen others do it; and small sections of copyrighted material posted for
> commentary or critique would likely be covered by "fair use" exemptions.

Well, it is an entire paragraph, so it might be too much. If you
download the zip file here:

http://www.wiscorp.com/sql200n.zip

and open 5CD2-02-Foundation-2006-01.pdf, at the top of page 289 under
General Rules, paragraph label 3 has the description. It talks about
procedure statements and trigger functions, which seems promising.

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