On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:18:19AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:02:28AM -0500, Thomas O'Connell wrote:
> > For older versions of postgres, it's recommended that you determine
> > the time in the client and use constant data in your query.
>
> Interesting. I have a few VIEWs that include now(), but I guess I
> could adjust and pass in the date from the client.
I sometimes use the constant 'now' instead, since it obviously isn't
mutable. It's a bit tricky because sometimes it expands when you define
the statement. You have to do 'now'::text usually and even then you
should check...
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