Re: new type proposal

At 03:43 PM 2/6/2001 -0500, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
>I've been thinking on some new pesudo-types like SERIAL.
>
>1) LAST_MODIFIED is the timestamp of that last time this row was
>modified.  Easy enough to do currently with triggers.
>2) TIME_CREATED is the timestamp of when this row was first created with
>an INSERT.  I'm not sure how to do this because it needs to be read
>only.


MS sql server has a TIMESTAMP field which acts exactly like LAST_MODIFIED 
type you proposed. I find this field very handy when attempting to 
synchronize data. I would welcome such a field type in postgres.

BTW is the currency datatype working with access and ODBC yet?


:wq
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