Re: function for current date-time

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:56 -0400, Harpreet Dhaliwal wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a timestamp field in my table and want to set a default value
> of current date/time for it.
> What should i enter as its default value? is there any function like
> now() in postgres?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Harpreet

test=# select now();
              now
-------------------------------
 2006-10-16 15:03:13.174644-04
(1 row)