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Message Posted: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 @ 21:58:46 GMT
| Subj: | | Re: Timestamp & six digit second |
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| From: | | Dieter Noeth |
Geoffrey Rommel wrote:
| | The precision of current_timestamp(6) depends on the underlying clock and OS. On MP-RAS and the Demo version, it's only two digits. | |
On Linux, too. I think it's based on a C function call, which just returns no greater precision.
| | Curiously enough, Microsoft SQL Server returns 3 digits, so the Intel chips must support at least that many. | |
But the last digit is *always* 0, 3 or 7, because the accuracy in SQL Server is only 1/300 of a second, so MS is just fooling the end user
again :-)
Dieter
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