Re: now() in loop statement

On 29 Sep 2003 at 15:58, Kerv wrote:

> What is wrong with this function because the mytime variable contain the 
> same value in each iteration:

From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/functions-
datetime.html:

It is important to realize that CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and related 
functions return the start time of the current transaction; their 
values do not change during the transaction. timeofday() returns the 
wall clock time and does advance during transactions. 
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/