I'm using the following DDL statement:

create table if not exists dbname.tablename
        (
        ...,
        the_date        date not null default current_date
        );


I receive the following error message:
ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'current_date,

I'm been looking around and can find no support on how to instruct the
database to default to current date.  All I've found was something like
this:

create table if not exists dbname.tablename
        (
        ....,
        the_date        date not null default '0000-00-00'
        );

This second option is not really what I want.  I want the let the
database create the current date when I insert a row.  Is this possible
and if so, how can it be done?

Thanks.

Eric Ray
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