| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: new type proposal |
| Date: | 2001-02-06 21:36:09 |
| Message-ID: | 200102062136.QAA14411@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> I've been thinking on some new pesudo-types like SERIAL.
>
> 1) LAST_MODIFIED is the timestamp of that last time this row was
> modified. Easy enough to do currently with triggers.
> 2) TIME_CREATED is the timestamp of when this row was first created with
> an INSERT. I'm not sure how to do this because it needs to be read
> only.
>
> Both of these could be useful to me and I can implement them by myself
> (except #2 which I'll just have to trust myself not to screw up) but
> general users might find them useful.
Well, SERIAL does auto-sequence create and DEFAULT. I don't see why we
can't add these features like we did for SERIAL.
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