Re: current_timestamp after queries

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Yes, timeofday() will work, but it can change during the statement, right?

For what he was doing, it seemed perfectly acceptable.

This comes back to the point I've been making during the pghackers
discussion: start-of-transaction time has clear uses, and
exact-current-time has clear uses, but it's not nearly as obvious
why you'd need start-of-statement time in preference to either of
the others.

            regards, tom lane