Oracle中justify_days,PostgreSQL日期函数备忘

PostgreSQL provides a number of functions that return values related to the current date and time. These SQL-standard functions all return values based on the start time of the current transaction:

CURRENT_DATE

CURRENT_TIME

CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

CURRENT_TIME(precision)

CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(precision)

LOCALTIME

LOCALTIMESTAMP

LOCALTIME(precision)

LOCALTIMESTAMP(precision)

CURRENT_TIME and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP deliver values with time zone; LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP deliver values without time zone.

CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, LOCALTIME, and LOCALTIMESTAMP can optionally take a precision parameter, which causes the result to be rounded to that many fractional digits in the seconds field. Without a precision parameter, the result is given to the full available precision.

Some examples:

SELECT CURRENT_TIME;

Result:14:39:53.662522-05

SELECT CURRENT_DATE;

Result:2001-12-23

SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

Result:2001-12-23 14:39:53.662522-05

SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(2);

Result:2001-12-23 14:39:53.66-05

SELECT LOCALTIMESTAMP;

Result:2001-12-23 14:39:53.662522

Since these functions return the start time of the current transaction, their values do not change during the transaction. This is considered a feature: the intent is to allow a single transaction to have a consistent notion of the "current" time, so that multiple modifications within the same transaction bear the same time stamp.

Note:Other database systems might advance these values more frequently.

PostgreSQL also provides functions that return the start time of the current statement, as well as the actual current time at the instant the function is called. The complete list of non-SQL-standard time functions is:

transaction_timestamp()

statement_timestamp()

clock_timestamp()

timeofday()

now()

transaction_timestamp() is equivalent to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, but is named to clearly reflect what it returns. statement_timestamp() returns the start time of the current statement (more specifically, the time of receipt of the latest command message from the client). statement_timestamp() andtransaction_timestamp() return the same value during the first command of a transaction, but might differ during subsequent commands.clock_timestamp() returns the actual current time, and therefore its value changes even within a single SQL command. timeofday() is a historicalPostgreSQL function. Like clock_timestamp(), it returns the actual current time, but as a formatted text string rather than a timestamp with time zonevalue. now() is a traditional PostgreSQL equivalent to transaction_timestamp().

All the date/time data types also accept the special literal value now to specify the current date and time (again, interpreted as the transaction start time). Thus, the following three all return the same result:

SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

SELECT now();

SELECT TIMESTAMP 'now'; -- incorrect for use with DEFAULT

Tip:You do not want to use the third form when specifying a DEFAULT clause while creating a table. The system will convert now to atimestamp as soon as the constant is parsed, so that when the default value is needed, the time of the table creation would be used! The first two forms will not be evaluated until the default value is used, because they are function calls. Thus they will give the desired behavior of defaulting to the time of row insertion.