On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> <5bih4k+4jfl6m39j23k@guerrillamail.com> writes:
>>> pg_proc shows that now() is marked as restricted, but transaction_timestamp() is marked as safe.
>
>> That's certainly silly, because they're equivalent. I should think
>> they're both safe. Robert?
>
> ... well, they would be if we passed down xactStartTimestamp to parallel
> workers, but I can't find any code that does that. In view of the fact that
> transaction_timestamp() is marked as parallel-safe, this is a bug in 9.6.
Yeah. Do you think we should arrange to pass that down, or change the marking?
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