[SQL] Re: Trigger question

2001-02-16 Thread Dan McGrath
Actually, a default of now() would be perfectly providing you created a rule to trap insert's and updates and remove the setting for that time/date from being inserted so as to have the db use the dfault which I think is far easier that making a silly trigger for something so simple. Dan Dave We

Re: [SQL] Re: Trigger question

2001-02-14 Thread Josh Berkus
Dave, Please look at the docs for creating triggers. (http:/www.postgresql.org/docs/). Hopefully, someone on this list with more experience with Update and Insert triggers can give you some help in avoiding the classic problems, such as infinite loops. Let me ask the obvious question: If the Ins

[SQL] Re: Trigger question

2001-02-14 Thread Dave Wedwick
One person suggested setting now() as default. That would work sometimes, but I have a situation where the user program is updating the default field with 0. now() never gets into the field. So, regardless of what the user enters, I want now() to be updated, and I guess it would be via a trigge