Re: I was spoiled by the MySQL timestamp field

Of course the proposed solution solves the INSERTs....you can also set a 
trigger that
on UPDATE set the value to 'now()'

dev@archonet.com wrote:

>>As someone who is just getting started with PostygreSQL from years working
>>with MySQL, it appears that the timestamp data type does not behave in the
>>way it did with MySQL.
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>Much as I like MySQL, it can sometimes be a little *too* helpful.
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>>I got used to just defining a column as a timestamp
>>and letting the database throw the latest time stamp in there whenever a
>>row
>>was updated. Is there anything simular in PosgreSQL?
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>When you create the table do something like:
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>CREATE TABLE foo (
>  bar timestamp DEFAULT now(),
>  ...
>);
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>You can of course do this with any column-type and value. See the
>SQL-reference for details.
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>- Richard Huxton
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