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</para>
- <para>
- In the current release (v7.0), <productname>Postgres</productname>
- evaluates all default expressions at the time the table is defined.
- Hence, functions which are "non-cacheable" such as
- <function>CURRENT_TIMESTAMP</function> may not produce the desired
- effect. For the particular case of date/time types, one can work
- around this behavior by using
- <quote>DEFAULT TEXT 'now'</quote>
- instead of
- <quote>DEFAULT 'now'</quote>
- or
- <quote>DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP</quote>.
- This forces <productname>Postgres</productname> to consider the constant a string
- type and then to convert the value to <type>timestamp</type> at runtime.
- </para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2 id="R2-SQL-DEFAULTCLAUSE-4">
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