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

jose' soares <sferac@bo.nettuno.it>

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From: "Jose' Soares Da Silva" <sferac@bo.nettuno.it>
To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@td.org.uit.no>, pere@td.org.uit.no
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-06-10T12:50:18Z
Lists: pgsql-sql 
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, 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
> 	);
> 

CREATE TABLE testdate(
 	received date DEFAULT CURRENT_DATE,
 	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.
> 
                    Jose'