Re: I was spoiled by the MySQL timestamp field

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:57:04AM +1300, Luke Pascoe wrote:
> Why not just use a DEFAULT NOW()?
> ie:
>     CREATE TABLE blah (
>         time    TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
>         );
>
> I know it works for DATETIME types, don't know about TIMESTAMP
> but I assume it would be the same.

great for INSERT, but rather inert on UPDATE.

create table _gribnif (
    created  timestamp default current_timestamp,
    modified timestamp,
    other    text,
);

create view gribnif ...

create rule gribnif_edit as
on update to gribnif
do instead (
    update _gribnif set
        MODIFIED = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
        other    = NEW.other
    where
        id = NEW.id
    ;
);

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