Re: autotimestamping

From: Nabil Sayegh <postgresql(at)e-trolley(dot)de>
To: Michael Hanna <zen(at)hwcn(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autotimestamping
Date: 2003-06-25 18:24:59
Message-ID: 1056565499.15395.26.camel@billy
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Am Mit, 2003-06-25 um 20.17 schrieb Michael Hanna:
> want an auto timestamping on my table.. SQL of create:
> create table healthnotes ( "posted" timestamptz not null default
> current_timestamp,
> "notes" text,
> primary key (posted))
>
> was succ. but how do I set it to autotimestamp when adding entries?
>
> tried:
>
> insert into healthnotes values ('my text notes entry my text notes
> entry my text notes entry')
>
> but said the value for timestamp was too long
> clearly the autotimestamp isn't set up yet

insert into healthnotes (notes) values ('my text notes entry my text
notes entry my text notes entry');

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