On Saturday 05 April 2008 10:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem in a function pgsql with Reading TIMESTAMP calling the
> function now() the problem is this:
> At the begin of function I read timestamp...
> select now() into TS_BEGIN;
>
> the function execute some statement...
>
> Many seconds after I reread the timestamp
> select now() into TS_END;
>
> and TS_BEGIN is identical TS_END!!!
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Luke.
You want to use clock_timestamp() or equivalent not now(). As you found out
now() fixes the time at the start of the transaction and does not change,
clock_timestamp() does. See URL below for a more complete explanation:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-datetime.html
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