Re: 'now' is sometimes not now - but current_timestamp is

Tom Lane <tgl 'at' sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> If you are going to copy the implementation of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
> you should at least copy it accurately. (Hint: the cast from
> text to timestamp is not immutable.) But why are you not just
> using CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, rather than trying to outsmart the system?

I was just trying to use what is best and wrongly picked up
'now'::TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE. I know now this was wrong :), I
only claimed that maybe the table description was a little
misleading (I know the difference was the ::text cast but for a
non postgresql expert, it didn't look crucial).

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Guillaume Cottenceau
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