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From: Dave Wedwick <news@wedwick.com>
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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 trigger...

Thanks!

Dave Wedwick wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have a table with an int4 field called inserttime.  Regardless of what
> the user enters in this field, I want a trigger to put now() into it.
>
> What's the syntax for the trigger?
>
> Thanks!