Re: [SQL] Problems with default date 'now'

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> I have a table where I want the default value of a date field to be
> todays date when I do insert. I have this table definition:
>
> CREATE TABLE testdate(
> received date DEFAULT 'now',
> info text NOT NULL
> );
>
> The problem is that the 'now' apparently is substituted when I create
> the table, not when I insert into it. Is there another way to handle
> this? This is on Linux RedHat 5.0 with PostgreSQL 6.2.1.
>

replace your field definition with this one:

received_date DATE DEFAULT CURRENT_DATE

it works fine.

bye,

Jerome ALET - alet(at)unice(dot)fr - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome
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