Try SELECT timeofday()::TIMESTAMP; Regards, Ben ""Christopher J. Bottaro"" <cjbottaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d46k11$6nc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Hi, > I understand that CURRENT_TIMESTAMP marks the beginning of the current > transaction. I want it to be the actual time. How do I do this? > timeofday() returns a string, how do I convert that into a TIMESTAMP? > > Is it possible to create a column with DEFAULT value evaluated to the > actual > current time (i.e. not the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP which is the beginning of the > current transaction). > > What I do now to get it to work is do a COMMIT right before the insert, > that > way CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is (pretty close to) the actual time. ...but that > is > so crappy and doesn't work if I actually need to use transactional > features > (i.e. rollback). > > Thanks for the help, > -- C > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
