On Feb 25, 2008, at 8:19 PM, Gregory Williamson wrote:
>
> Perhaps, make the column so it has a default value of now, land then
> insert without specifying the timestamp column so it gets the
> default value:
>
> create table foo (q_i_time timestamp with time zone not null default
> now(), someval int);
>
This is what I do. For many tables, I also add a mod_time column with
an ON UPDATE trigger similar to the one previously posted. Even when
not needed for the table itself, in development, it can be very handy
to compare dodgy inserts/updates with commit logs when bug hunting...
-j