Re: [HACKERS] Niladic functions

Thus spake Thomas G. Lockhart
> > This paragraph says that CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is evaluated at the time
> > the table is defined yet I tested this with a current version and it
> > actually gets evaluated at INSERT time.
>
> You are right; I had changed the parser to force a string into the parse
> tree rather than a constant. Would you be interested in sending patches
> for the docs? :)

I can't find the source doc in the distribution but it's pretty simple.
Just remove that whole paragraph.

> > Sorry, my misunderstanding. I didn't realize that PostgreSQL was the
> > title of this particular document. Anyway, the link to this page is
> > "Integrated Document" so there is a small inconsistency.
>
> The problem is that this is a document integrated from all of the other
> documents for purposes of HTML formatting and browsing. I wanted to make
> clear that all of the information appears somewhere in the other
> documents.

Hence the title on the referring page. How about changing the title on
the page itself to reflect that as well? Something like;

"PostgreSQL Integrated Development Document"

or some such. No biggie but it makes it easier to remember how you got
to the document you are reading.

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