[GENERAL] Inconsistent values for 'now'

2005-03-31 Thread Glen Eustace
Hi, I am trying to setup rules on a view that will maintain an audit trail of modifications in the real table. Things seem to be going ok but when I EXPLAIN my queries, the literal 'now' is being given two different values, one 2 days earlier. I am running 7.4.7 The view is defined to be;

Re: [GENERAL] Inconsistent values for 'now'

2005-03-31 Thread Tom Lane
Glen Eustace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The view is defined to be; CREATE VIEW domain_registry AS SELECT * FROM domain_registry_history WHERE tstamp 'now'; Offhand I'd expect the 'now' to be reduced to a timestamp constant at the time the view is created. Perhaps you were

Re: [GENERAL] Inconsistent values for 'now'

2005-03-31 Thread Glen Eustace
Offhand I'd expect the 'now' to be reduced to a timestamp constant at the time the view is created. Hmmm, my assumption had been that the 'now' constant would be evaluated everytime the underlying SELECT was build by the planner. although personally I'd not feel very comfortable with the idea