On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:21 PM, David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been reading about triggers on insert and found the page at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/triggers.html with some > sample > code in the comments. > > I'm thinking what I want can't really be this involved. > > I want to have a table with a timestamp field that automatically gets the > value of now() on insert. The timestamp will never be updated. I assume I > need to create a trigger to do this. If there is an easier way, please > advise. > > Otherwise, is there any sample code that would should be how to do this? > The > sample on the page above looks like > overkill.<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq> > In your create table statement: "create_dt" TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE DEFAULT now() NOT NULL -- ================================================================== Aaron Bono Aranya Software Technologies, Inc. http://www.aranya.com http://codeelixir.com ==================================================================
