Re: [NOVICE] pl/pgsql and returns timestamp type

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> Hm, is this a glitch in the matrix or other malfeasance?  gmail
> reports the mail as dating from 2002.   Also note the ancient plpgsql
> stylings and the dubious email address...

Huh, yeah, I hadn't noticed the date on it, but a closer look at the
Received: lines shows

Received: from mail-ext-test.rmit.edu.au ([131.170.21.118] helo=mail-ext8.rmit.edu.au)
        by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2)
        (envelope-from <prvs=339241e5b=rmit.test2115@gmail.com>)
        id 1dNuJX-0001Nd-Dw
        for pgsql-novice@postgresql.org; Thu, 22 Jun 2017 05:05:57 +0000
X-SBRS: None
X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.39,371,1493647200";
   d="scan'208";a="2810163"
Received: from unknown (HELO W8108266) ([10.217.132.220])
  by mail-int8.rmit.edu.au with ESMTP; 22 Jun 2017 15:05:50 +1000
Received: via dmail-2002(12) for +lists/pgsql/novice; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:32:40 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from relay1.pgsql.com (relay1.pgsql.com [64.49.215.129])
        by lerami.lerctr.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/20020902/$Revision: 1.30 $) with ESMTP id g8AFWXE9015200
        for <ler@lerctr.org>; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 10:32:34 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from postgresql.org (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8])
        by relay1.pgsql.com (Postfix) with ESMTP
        id E418F744506; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:32:25 -0400 (EDT)

Somebody at rmit.edu.au reinjected some ancient mail.
Amusingly, our archives seem to have recognized it as a dupe,
even though the mail transport system didn't.

(I wonder why this copy seems to have been delivered to Larry Rosenman
originally...)

            regards, tom lane