Re: BUG #6047: prepare p1 as select 'now'::timestamp; then "execute p1" many times, they return the same time

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "" <wcting163(at)163(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #6047: prepare p1 as select 'now'::timestamp; then "execute p1" many times, they return the same time
Date: 2011-06-02 14:10:04
Message-ID: 14435.1307023804@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"" <wcting163(at)163(dot)com> writes:
> 1). although i kown that, "the system will convert **now** to a timestamp as
> soon as the constant is parsed",
> i think this is a bug.

Sorry, it's not a bug, and we're not going to change it.

> but, what about "prepare p1 as select 'today'::timestamp"??
> today() is not a builtin function, we can't change it to "select
> today()::timestamp";

You can get that by using date_trunc on the result of now(); or there's
current_date, which is actually SQL-standard unlike these other things.

regards, tom lane

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