Re: [GENERAL] Date column that defaults to 'now'

2004-01-06 Thread Gaetano Mendola
John Siracusa wrote: On 1/5/04 4:29 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: (If you're not the John Siracusa who writes for Ars Technica, the sentiment still holds. :) ) I am everywhere! (worked, thanks to both of you who replied :) Anyway the two solution solve different problems: 1) DEFAULT now()

[GENERAL] Date column that defaults to 'now'

2004-01-05 Thread John Siracusa
How can I create a non-null date column that defaults to 'now' as computed at the time the row is inserted? -John ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to

Re: [GENERAL] Date column that defaults to 'now'

2004-01-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:00, John Siracusa wrote: How can I create a non-null date column that defaults to 'now' as computed at the time the row is inserted? The default should be either CURRENT_DATE or timeofday()::DATE The difference is that CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and CURRENT_DATE

Re: [GENERAL] Date column that defaults to 'now'

2004-01-05 Thread Michael Glaesemann
Hi John! On Jan 5, 2004, at 3:00 PM, John Siracusa wrote: How can I create a non-null date column that defaults to 'now' as computed at the time the row is inserted? How about this? test=# create table johns (comment text not null,this_time timestamp not null default now(), this_date date not

Re: [GENERAL] Date column that defaults to 'now'

2004-01-05 Thread John Siracusa
On 1/5/04 4:29 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: (If you're not the John Siracusa who writes for Ars Technica, the sentiment still holds. :) ) I am everywhere! (worked, thanks to both of you who replied :) -John ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if