Re: now() gives same time within the session

From: Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Rob Wultsch <wultsch(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: now() gives same time within the session
Date: 2010-07-12 13:26:52
Message-ID: 20100712132652.GD11581@aart.is.rice.edu
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 06:11:31AM -0700, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:15 AM, A. Kretschmer
> <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com> wrote:
> > In response to Atul(dot)Goel(at)globaldatapoint(dot)com :
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I need to log the start and end time of the procedures in a table. But the
> >> start and end time are same. This is how I recreated the issue.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> create table test_time (time timestamp);
> >>
> >> delete from ?test_time;
> >>
> >> insert into test_time select now();
> >
> >
> > Use timeofday() instead, now() returns the transaction starting time.
>
>
> Is this part of the SQL standard?
>
No, see section 9.9.4 of the manual.

Cheers,
Ken

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