You can't.
Default values must be constants.
Håkan Elmqvist wrote:
> Timestamp is a useful datatype when you want to register when a record
> changed. Now I want to register who changed it and tried to use user()
> as a default value and my database just returned user() as the field
> value. Is there someone who can tell me how to use a function result as
> default value? The manual is not very clear on this issue.
> H
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