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Problems with default date 'now'

From
Petter Reinholdtsen
Date:
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
    );

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.

Please remember to send replies to me (too), as I am not member on
this mailing-list.

Happy hacking,
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Re: [SQL] Problems with default date 'now'

From
Jerome ALET
Date:
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
>         );
>
> 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.
>

replace your field definition with this one:

received_date DATE DEFAULT CURRENT_DATE

it works fine.

bye,

Jerome ALET - alet@unice.fr - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome
Faculte de Medecine de Nice - http://noe.unice.fr - Tel: 04 93 37 76 30
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Re: [SQL] Problems with default date 'now'

From
"Jose' Soares Da Silva"
Date:
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'