Re: now() does not change within a transaction

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 02:04:35PM +0000, Christoph Haller wrote:
> Hi pgsql-sql list, 
> I did some testing around tables using a column 
> timestamp with time zone not null default now(). 
> I have noticed a valuable feature: 
> As long as being inside a transaction initiated by 
> begin; 
> the return value of the now() function does not change. 
> Is this intended - as written in the documentation? 
Sure. See (for example):

http://docs.linux.cz/PostgreSQL/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-CURRENT 
  It is quite important to realize that CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and related  functions all return the time as of the start of
thecurrent transaction;  their values do not increment while a transaction is running. But  timeofday() returns the
actualcurrent time.
 
test=# select timeofday()::timestamp;          timeofday
-------------------------------2002-04-18 14:39:36.459162+02
       Karel

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