[GENERAL] Allowing SYSDATE to Work

2006-11-17 Thread Matt Miller
I'd like SYSDATE to work syntactically and semantically the same as CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (or CURRENT_TIME, or whatever). I can create a function called "sysdate" that does the trick, but then it seems I have to reference the function as "sysdate ()," but I want to be able to get away with just "sysda

Re: [GENERAL] Allowing SYSDATE to Work

2006-11-17 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Matt Miller wrote: > I'd like SYSDATE to work syntactically and semantically the same as > CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (or CURRENT_TIME, or whatever). I can create a > function called "sysdate" that does the trick, but then it seems I have > to reference the function as "sysdate ()," but I want to be able t

Re: [GENERAL] Allowing SYSDATE to Work

2006-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/06 16:31, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Matt Miller wrote: >> I'd like SYSDATE to work syntactically and semantically the same as >> CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (or CURRENT_TIME, or whatever). I can create a >> function called "sysdate" that does the trick,

Re: [GENERAL] Allowing SYSDATE to Work

2006-11-26 Thread Jim Nasby
On Nov 17, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Matt Miller wrote: I'd like SYSDATE to work syntactically and semantically the same as CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (or CURRENT_TIME, or whatever). I can create a function called "sysdate" that does the trick, but then it seems I have to reference the function as "sysdate (),