Re: [SQL] CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 11:51:32PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > Well, I'd rather it didn't change at all. IMHO it's a feature, not a bug. In
> > any case, if it does get changed we'll have to go through the documentation
> > and work out whether we mean current_timestamp or now(). I think most people
> > actually want now().
>
> Well, I think we have to offer statement start time somewhere, and it
> seems the standard probably requires that. Two other databases do it
> that way. Oracle doesn't have CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in 8.X. Can anyone
> test on 9.X?

Hmm, well having a statement start time could be conceivably useful.

> > Fortunatly where I work we only use now() so it won't really matter too
> > much. Is there a compelling reason to change?
>
> Yes, it will split now() and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. I personally would be
> happy with STATEMENT_TIMESTAMP, but because the standard requires it we
> may just have to fix CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.

Well, my vote would be for STATEMENT_TIMESTAMP. Is there really no other
database that does it the way we do? Perhaps it could be matched with a
TRANSACTION_TIMESTAMP and we can sort out CURRENT_TIMESTAMP some other way.

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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.