Re: is this proper sql?

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: clayton cottingham <drfrog(at)smartt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: is this proper sql?
Date: 2001-04-17 20:29:21
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0104171326040.78170-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, clayton cottingham wrote:

> hi one of the developers here at work say this should work
> insert into detail (det_id,det_mas_id,det_date,det_amt) values
> (0,0,now(),'0'), (1,1,now(),'1');
>
>
>
> but when i try that in postgres like:
> insert into detail (det_id,det_mas_id,det_date,det_amt) values
> (0,0,datetime'now','0'), (1,1,datetime'now','1');
>
> i get
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near ","
>
>
> now i personally dont think this is real sql
> anyone?

I'm pretty sure that meets spec, but isn't currently supported by
postgres. I believe if I'm reading the spec correctly, it's only
required for the highest level of complience.

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