Re: date and time

On Monday 24 March 2008 7:35 am, Alain Roger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have a stored procedure (a function) in which i must generate a date/time
> stamp.
> for that i use "select * from now();" and store the result into a column
> table.
>
> is there a easier way to do that ? i tried to store directly now(); result
> but without success.
>
> thx.
If you want the timestamp on INSERT add DEFAULT now() to column.
In a pl/pgsql function I do;

new.ts_update:=now()

where ts_update is the column I am updating.
Be aware now() records the time at the beginning of the transaction. An
alternate is clock_timestamp() which records the current time.
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Adrian Klaver
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