From: | Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> |
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To: | Dane Foster <studdugie(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: A table of magic constants |
Date: | 2015-07-11 19:21:29 |
Message-ID: | 55A16CB9.50807@iol.ie |
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On 11/07/2015 20:07, Dane Foster wrote:
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> As a recent convert to the Church of Postgres I've been consuming vast
Welcome to the One True Faith! :-)
> amounts of information on PostgreSQL, and SESSION_USER is not the first
> nor only, what I'm calling magic constant, that I've seen. Off the top
> of my head, other examples that I've encountered are CURRENT_USER and
> CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.
>
> So my question is this, is there a reference table in the documentation
> that I haven't found yet that lists all magic constants and their
> meaning? And if not in the official documentation is it in the wiki?
session_user, current_timestamp and current_user are all functions, not
magic constants:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-datetime.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-info.html
I hope this helps,
Ray.
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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
rod(at)iol(dot)ie
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