-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.482.2.2 2009/11/24 19:21:04 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.482.2.3 2010/03/18 15:29:51 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="functions">
<title>Functions and Operators</title>
<row>
<entry><literal><function>current_schemas</function>(<type>boolean</type>)</literal></entry>
<entry><type>name[]</type></entry>
- <entry>names of schemas in search path optionally including implicit schemas</entry>
+ <entry>names of schemas in search path, optionally including implicit schemas</entry>
</row>
<row>
</row>
<row>
- <entry><literal><function>current_query</function></literal></entry>
+ <entry><literal><function>current_query</function>()</literal></entry>
<entry><type>text</type></entry>
<entry>text of the currently executing query, as submitted
by the client (might contain more than one statement)</entry>
- </row>
+ </row>
<row>
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</tgroup>
</table>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ <function>current_catalog</function>, <function>current_schema</function>,
+ <function>current_user</function>, <function>session_user</function>,
+ and <function>user</function> have special syntactic status
+ in <acronym>SQL</acronym>: they must be called without trailing
+ parentheses. (In PostgreSQL, parentheses can optionally be used with
+ <function>current_schema</function>, but not with the others.)
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
<indexterm>
<primary>user</primary>
<secondary>current</secondary>
the current user is the <quote>effective user</quote>.
</para>
- <note>
- <para>
- <function>current_catalog</function>, <function>current_schema</function>,
- <function>current_user</function>, <function>session_user</function>,
- and <function>user</function> have special syntactic status
- in <acronym>SQL</acronym>: they must be called without trailing
- parentheses (optional in PostgreSQL in the case
- of <function>current_schema</function>).
- </para>
- </note>
-
<para>
<function>current_schema</function> returns the name of the schema that is
first in the search path (or a null value if the search path is