The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5191 Logged by: Clark Pearson Email address: cloink_frigg...@ntlworld.com PostgreSQL version: 8.3.7 Operating system: Windows Description: now() returns same value from Perl. Details:
Hi, I don't know if this is a core database issue, or a Perl DBD::Pg one; however the same thing occurs using the 'pure perl' DBD::PgPP as well, so the evidence points to the db. Note that I do not observe this behaviour if connected via psql from a Windows DOS terminal. If I 'SELECT now()' repeatedly from a perl script connected to the database via DBD::Pg, the returned value does not get updated to the new system time. I have tried a number of different tricks, but the only way I have managed to make it return a value not the same as the first time is by dis-/reconnecting. Here is a simple perl script to test with #!perl use strict; use warnings; use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect( 'DBI:Pg:dbname=tc;host=localhost;port=5432', 'user', 'pass', { RaiseError => 1 , PrintError => 1 , AutoCommit => 0 } ); my $qry = q( select current_timestamp ); $qry = $dbh->prepare($qry); my $tmp = $dbh->selectrow_array( 'select current_timestamp'); warn $tmp; sleep 2; my $tm2 = $dbh->selectrow_array('SELECT 1'); warn $tm2; my $tm3 = $dbh->selectrow_array('SELECT now()'); warn $tm3; $dbh->disconnect(); __END__ -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs