Adrian Klaver wrote:
On Thursday 22 January 2009 8:16:46 am Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz escribió:
test2=# insert into dupa(a) select 'current_timestamp' from
generate_series(1,100);
ERROR: date/time value "current" is no longer supported
LINE 1: insert into dupa(a) select 'current_timestamp' from generate...
^
test2=# insert into dupa(a) select 'now()' from generate_series(1,100);
INSERT 0 100
Any ideas why the difference ?
The parser handles CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (and others) specially, and doesn't
recognize it in quotes. I don't know why 'now()' works; I think it is a
literal of type unknown. I guess it's expanded to the actual value in
later parsing stages.
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At least on 8.2 'now()' does not work either at least not in the way I think
you want. I get:
test=# SELECT 'now()';
?column?
----------
now()
(1 row)
Try
select now();
