From a29d815a7a4a583bda02c2743d92feabd34886d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 01:52:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Improve gettimeofday() documentation.
Karl O. Pinc
---
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 734686bf4a4..d837219421e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.261 2005/06/28 05:08:50 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.262 2005/06/29 01:52:56 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -5786,15 +5786,6 @@ SELECT LOCALTIMESTAMP;
<function>CURRENT_TIMESTAMP</function>.
</para>
- <para>
- There is also the function <function>timeofday()</function>, which for historical
- reasons returns a <type>text</type> string rather than a <type>timestamp</type> value:
-<screen>
-SELECT timeofday();
-<lineannotation>Result: </lineannotation><computeroutput>Sat Feb 17 19:07:32.000126 2001 EST</computeroutput>
-</screen>
- </para>
-
<para>
It is important to know that
<function>CURRENT_TIMESTAMP</function> and related functions return
@@ -5803,8 +5794,7 @@ SELECT timeofday();
the intent is to allow a single transaction to have a consistent
notion of the <quote>current</quote> time, so that multiple
modifications within the same transaction bear the same
- time stamp. <function>timeofday()</function>
- returns the wall-clock time and does advance during transactions.
+ time stamp.
</para>
<note>
@@ -5814,6 +5804,18 @@ SELECT timeofday();
</para>
</note>
+ <para>
+ There is also the function <function>timeofday()</function> which
+ returns the wall-clock time and advances during transactions. For
+ historical reasons <function>timeofday()</function> returns a
+ <type>text</type> string rather than a <type>timestamp</type>
+ value:
+<screen>
+SELECT timeofday();
+<lineannotation>Result: </lineannotation><computeroutput>Sat Feb 17 19:07:32.000126 2001 EST</computeroutput>
+</screen>
+ </para>
+
<para>
All the date/time data types also accept the special literal value
<literal>now</literal> to specify the current date and time. Thus,
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