On 9/5/07, Ottó Havasvölgyi <havasvolgyi(dot)otto(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> What is the cause that "now()" works but "now" does not and
> "current_user" works but "current_user()" does not.
From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-info.html :
"Note: current_user, session_user, and user have special syntactic
status in SQL: they must be called without trailing parentheses."
See:
http://www.google.com/search?q=sql+current_user