No longer need to cast default non-cacheable functions.
authorBruce Momjian
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 07:19:27 +0000 (07:19 +0000)
committerBruce Momjian
Thu, 13 Apr 2000 07:19:27 +0000 (07:19 +0000)
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml

index 0e4642e912cd185c1fd118203bef642a176fdfc3..9bc0968a43936770db321c9a3e470f86cca523c4 100644 (file)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -393,21 +393,6 @@ DEFAULT value
     
    
 
-   
-    In the current release (v7.0), Postgres
-    evaluates all default expressions at the time the table is defined.
-    Hence, functions which are "non-cacheable" such as
-    CURRENT_TIMESTAMP may not produce the desired
-    effect. For the particular case of date/time types, one can work
-    around this behavior by using 
-    DEFAULT TEXT 'now'
-    instead of
-    DEFAULT 'now'
-    or
-    DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.
-    This forces Postgres to consider the constant a string
-    type and then to convert the value to timestamp at runtime.
-   
   
   
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