From: | "Aaron Bono" <aaron(dot)bono(at)aranya(dot)com> |
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To: | "David Bear" <david(dot)bear(at)asu(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: example of insert timestamp |
Date: | 2008-02-26 01:21:21 |
Message-ID: | bf05e51c0802251721h48fa1d12i1993459170c805fe@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:21 PM, David Bear <david(dot)bear(at)asu(dot)edu> wrote:
> I've been reading about triggers on insert and found the page at
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/triggers.html with some
> sample
> code in the comments.
>
> I'm thinking what I want can't really be this involved.
>
> I want to have a table with a timestamp field that automatically gets the
> value of now() on insert. The timestamp will never be updated. I assume I
> need to create a trigger to do this. If there is an easier way, please
> advise.
>
> Otherwise, is there any sample code that would should be how to do this?
> The
> sample on the page above looks like overkill.<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq>
>
In your create table statement:
"create_dt" TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE DEFAULT now() NOT NULL
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