Note you seem to have forgotten to cc the list on this message.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:42:10 -0800,
Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net> wrote:
> Thank you for all the replies, I now have half of my question answered. What I need to know is
> what I can put in the table definition for the default value to have the current timestamp put in
> the three timestamp fields.
>
> 1/ Can I put 'now' as the default value
> in the table definition?
>
> 2/ can I put CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(0) as the default value ...
> in the table definition?
I believe both of these will work. If the column is of type timestamp
(as opposed to timestamp(0)) then 'now''s value won't be rounded to
the nearest second.