From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: Louie Kwan <lkwan@nuvo.com>
Cc: 'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org' <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: SYSDATE in PostgreSQL !?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:57:28 +0000
Message-ID: <1078181848.2603.23.camel@cerberus.lfix.co.uk> (raw)
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On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 21:18, Louie Kwan wrote:
> How can I define a table with columns with sysdate as the default value..
>
> If there is no SYSDATE defined in PostgreSQL , what can I do ?
> CREATE TABLE channels (
...
> updateTimeStamp DATE default (SYSDATE),
> createTimeStamp DATE default (SYSDATE)
> );
updateTimeStamp DATE DEFAULT CURRENT_DATE
or possibly
updateTimeStamp TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
which will give you time as well as date. Perhaps you should also add
NOT NULL.
CURRENT_* doesn't change within a transaction. If you need to record
real time, use timeofday().
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