Re: timestamp value

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 09:49, Ivan Horvath wrote:
> Oliver,
>
> then what can i do -regarding timestamp- if i need to
> create such a routine, so called "batch-processing",
> which writes data to a table, or more tables at the
> same time?
> how can i ask the real timestamp value within a stored
> procedure?


1.  Do you really need to distinguish _within_a_transaction_?

2.  Use timeofday()::TIMESTAMP
(It's in the docs at User manual 4.8.3)

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