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From Campbell, Lance
Subject on update of table set timestamp
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Msg-id B10E6810AC2A2F4EA7550D072CDE876004B2E5C0@SAB-FENWICK.sab.uiuc.edu
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Responses Re: on update of table set timestamp  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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PostgreSQL 8.4

I want to add a timestamp column to some of my important table such that whenever an SQL “update” command is executed on the table the “updated_timestamp” timestamp column would be set with “now()”.  Is there a way to do this?  I know I could go through and change my SQL all over the place to update a column “updated_timestamp” with “now()” but it would be faster if there was some way to set a constraint and/or default value on the field.  Is this possible.  I don’t really want to do store procedures.

 

Thanks,

 

Lance Campbell

Software Architect/DBA/Project Manager

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