ION"
>logfunc2</CODE
>, the
     <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> main parser does not know
     what type <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>'now'</TT
> should become and therefore
     it returns a data value of type <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>text</TT
> containing the string
     <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>now</TT
>. During the ensuing assignment
     to the local variable <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>curtime</TT
>, the
     <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>PL/pgSQL</SPAN
> interpreter casts this
     string to the <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>