to my knowledge MySQL doesn't support DEFAULT on date/time columns.    
You can work with the MySQL database directly a little bit to confirm  
this.


On Jun 28, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Gloria W wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> Looking back in these posts, I tried several older variants of MySQL
> datetime column initialization discussed here, and they're not
> working.
>
> This works in Postgresql:
>
> sqlalchemy.Column('date_created', sqlalchemy.DateTime,
>    sqlalchemy.PassiveDefault(sqlalchemy.sql.func.now()),
> nullable=False)
>
> But the MySQL equivalent fails:
>
> sqlalchemy.Column('date_created', sqlalchemy.DateTime,
>    sqlalchemy.PassiveDefault(text("CURRENT_TIMESTAMP")),
> nullable=False)
>
> What is the valid syntax? Is it failing for other reasons?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Gloria
>
> >


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