Re: Dynamic update of a date field

Musial, Jan (GIUB) <jan.musial@giub.unibe.ch> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have a question concerning default value/trigger function which
> supposed to update/fill field called time_stamp whenever a row is
> inserted. Let say that we have a table: CREATE TABLE dummy (year

you can use 'default now()' or an insert-trigger


> smallint,month smallint,day smallint,time_stamp date); I would like to

That's silly, use one (and only one) field, timestamp (or timestamptz)
Don't use never ever multiple columns for the same information!



Andreas
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