'current' timestamp bug

It seems some input validation isn't working somewhere.

Unless I'm missing something and somehow 'current' is a magic timestamp
value (in which case the jdbc driver should be able to parse it
somehow).

playpen=# update tablea set ts = current_timestamp where id = 1;
UPDATE 1
playpen=# select * from tablea;
id | ts
----+------------------------
1 | 2001-05-07 16:32:55-04
(1 row)

playpen=# update tablea set ts = 'current_timestamp' where id = 1;
UPDATE 1
playpen=# select * from tablea;
id | ts
----+---------
1 | current
(1 row)

playpen=# update tablea set ts = 'foo' where id = 1;
ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation 'foo'
playpen=# update tablea set ts = 'current_foo' where id = 1;
UPDATE 1
playpen=# select * from tablea;
id | ts
----+---------
1 | current
(1 row)

playpen=# update tablea set ts = 'xxxxxxxfoo' where id = 1;
ERROR: Bad timestamp external representation 'xxxxxxxfoo'

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