From: | Guo Bin <guobin_(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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To: | Ang Sei Heng <joanna(at)leopard(dot)cybersource(dot)com(dot)sg>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Help on some SQL command... |
Date: | 2000-08-17 08:59:17 |
Message-ID: | 20000817085917.12557.qmail@web204.mail.yahoo.com |
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Hi,
You can specify a default value for the create_date
column like:
create_date timestamp default 'now'
In the insert statement just ommit that field and you
will get the default, as
insert into test1 (id, name) values (1, 'xxx');
Regards,
--
Guo Bin
--- Ang Sei Heng <joanna(at)leopard(dot)cybersource(dot)com(dot)sg> wrote:
> Hello to all the SQL gurus...
>
> I have this little table:
>
> test1 (
> id char(8) primary key,
> name char(20),
> create_date timestamp
> );
>
> Now, the create_date need to be updated
> to date and time whenever id is being
> inserted or updated.
>
> Is there a way in SQL that I can do this
> automatically?
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