| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Prabu Subroto <prabu_subroto(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Postgres General Milis <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: the behaviour of timestamp on postgres. |
| Date: | 2004-08-11 15:15:03 |
| Message-ID: | 20040811080939.V17280@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Prabu Subroto wrote:
> How is the behaviour of the timestamp on postgres? I
It's pretty much just a plain datatype.
> have define the datatype of the column with
> "timestamp" but each time I inserted a new record into
> the table than the timestamp column (with datatype
> "timestamp") stays empty.
>
> How can I make the postgres complete the value of the
> timestamp field automatically?
If you want insert time setting, you can use a default
clause on the column.
If you want update time modification, you can write a
before trigger that updates the column.
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