Re: Changing behavior of BEGIN...sleep...do something...COMMIT

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Doug McNaught wrote:
>> Maybe clock_time() and statement_time(), with transaction_time() an
>> alias for now() (if that's seemed necessary)?

I could go with that ...

> We already have CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.  Would CLOCK_TIMESTAMP,
> TRANSACTION_TIMESTAMP, and STATEMENT_TIMESTAMP make sense, with
> CURRENT_TIMESTAMP being the same as TRANSACTION_TIMESTAMP?

... or that.  But, please, *not* the weird no-parentheses syntax that
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP has.  Make it clock_timestamp() and so on.
        regards, tom lane