Re: A table of magic constants

On 07/11/2015 12:21 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:

On 11/07/2015 20:07, Dane Foster wrote:

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As a recent convert to the Church of Postgres I've been consuming vast

Welcome to the One True Faith! :-)

amounts of information on PostgreSQL, and SESSION_USER is not the first
nor only, what I'm calling magic constant, that I've seen. Off the top
of my head, other examples that I've encountered are CURRENT_USER and
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.

So my question is this, is there a reference table in the documentation
that I haven't found yet that lists all magic constants and their
meaning? And if not in the official documentation is it in the wiki?

session_user, current_timestamp and current_user are all functions, not
magic constants:

   http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-datetime.html
   http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-info.html

I hope this helps,

To add to this. In the documentation section:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/index.html

there is a Search box where you can enter the word/phrase you are looking for.

If all else fails there is the Index:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/index.html

Ray.

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