Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And one last thought: There are applications out there that are not > written for one specific database backend. Having to replace > CURRENT_TIMESTAMP by PG-specific now('statement') is just one more > pain in trying to be portable across different backends.
Based on this discussion, it seems any application that depends on a specific behavior of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is going to have portability problems anyway. Even if we did change CURRENT_TIMESTAMP to match now('statement'), it would not act exactly like anyone else's. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly