Re: Internal time stamps?

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Aaron <niccoli00(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> Does postgresql have any kind of internal time stamps for a table entry?  I
> can create a field that is 'timestamp' and store it there, I was just
> wondering if it was already done internally.  I'd hate to duplicate
> something it already does. :-)
> If it does store it internally, how do you access it?
> Thanks!!
> Aaron

To the best of my knowledge:
Internal timestamps do not exist. If you want to store a timestamp of
when a row was inserted, just use a TIMESTAMP type column (with- or
without- time zone; WITH TIME ZONE is recommended) and insert
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP or NOW or whatever function you wanna use.