Re: gettime() - a timeofday() alternative

On 8/7/05, Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I propose to add an internal function gettime() that transparently
> returns the current system time, as a timestamptz with maximum
> precision.
>

Here's the patch.

The changes to pg_proc.h, timestamp.h and timestamp.c are trivial.
The changes to func.sgml are more comprehensive; I've split the
section on Current Date/Time into two subsections, one that explains
the transaction time functions and one for the system time functions.

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BJ