Re: CURRENT_TIMESTAMP vs actual time

John DeSoi wrote:

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> On Apr 20, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 
> timeofday()::timestamp;

Great, that did it, thanks.  I also found out that you can say
CAST(timeofday() AS TIMESTAMP).  I assume its the same thing...

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