Thread: Re: [SQL] CURRENT_TIMSTAMP

Re: [SQL] CURRENT_TIMSTAMP

From
Stephan Szabo
Date:
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Raymond Chui wrote:

> I created a column, dada type timstamp with time zone
> and with default CURRENT_TIMSTAMP
> it shows me the default is
>
> default ('now'::text)::timstamp(6) with time zone
>
> Then when I insert a row, the default timestamp value is
>
> yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:ss.mmmmm+00
>
> where mmmmm is milliseconds.
> How do I make default only yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:ss+00 ?

As already suggested you probably want a timestamp with time zone(0)
column, but if you really want the ability to insert partial seconds but
the default to not have partial seconds, you can use
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(0) I believe.