From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: Henry Ortega <juandelacruz@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: best way to auto-update a field when row is updated
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:21:33 -0600
Message-ID: <200503101421.33958.ler@lerctr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2bffcc3305031012092fde7dc2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2bffcc3305031012092fde7dc2@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 10 March 2005 02:09 pm, Henry Ortega wrote:
> I have the following table
>
> FIELD_A | FIELD_B | TSTAMP
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----------------------------- x y
> 2005-03-10 14:56:47.456431
>
> TSTAMP = not null default now()
>
> What's the best way to always auto-update TSTAMP to it's
> default value whenever the row gets updated?
> (e.g. update TABLENAME set FIELD_A='zzz' where FIELD_A='x';
> should automatically set TSTAMP to now)
>
trigger on update/insert.
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