Thanks, Tom (also Keith Worthington and Bricklen Anderson). That works.
~ Ken
-Original Message-
From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:15 PM
To: Ken Winter
Cc: PostgreSQL pg-sql list
Subject: Re: [SQL] Defaulting a column to 'now'
Ken
How can a columns default be set to now,
meaning now as of when each row is inserted?
For example, heres a snip of DDL:
create table personal_data (
effective_date_and_time TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE not null
default 'now',
The problem is, when PostgreSQL processes this DDL, it
Ken Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can a column's default be set to 'now', meaning 'now' as of when each
row is inserted?
You need a function, not a literal constant. The SQL-spec way is
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
(which is a function, despite the spec's weird idea that it should be
Ken Winter wrote:
How can a column’s default be set to ‘now’, meaning ‘now’ as of when
each row is inserted?
For example, here’s a snip of DDL:
create table personal_data (…
effective_date_and_time TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE not null default 'now',…
try with now(), instead of now
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:10:50 -0500, Ken Winter wrote
How can a column's default be set to 'now', meaning 'now' as of when each
row is inserted?
For example, here's a snip of DDL:
create table personal_data (.
effective_date_and_time TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE not null default
'now',.
