Christian,
a DEFAULT value in a CREATE (or ALTER) statement must be a static value, try
using a TIMESTAMP field instead.
To use 'ERROR' in as an 'ENUM' DEFAULT it must be included in the definition,
i.e. ENUM('ERROR','TRUE')
Hope this helps...
John
On Thursday 08 February 2001 09:09, Christian Ribeaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried the following code:
>
> CREATE TABLE news (... published date DEFAULT 'NOW()' NOT NULL, ..., showIt
> ENUM('TRUE') DEFAULT ERROR, ...);
>
> and I was surprised to get an '0000-00-00' as date after doing a SELECT. I
> would like that the table put automatically the today's date for every
> INPUT as default value. What is wrong? Another question, 'showIt
> ENUM('TRUE') DEFAULT ERROR' did not work but 'showIt ENUM('TRUE','FALSE')
> DEFAULT FALSE' worked fine. I would like to have something like bits or
> boolean values in my table. How to achieve this? Thanks for the help and
> have a nice day. Greetings,
>
> christian
>
>
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