Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:23:15PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> I actually use CURRENT_DATE; that is what the system turns it into.
> Ah yes, I see that now. I generally use now(), so I hadn't noticed > that CURRENT_DATE and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP become 'now', whereas only > a literal 'now' is expanded at create time: Yeah. That implementation of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and friends is historical, and probably ought to be changed sometime. It works OK but it's ugly, especially for reverse-listing purposes. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org