Re: [INTERFACES] Re: M$-Access'97 and TIMESTAMPs

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hannu wrote:

> Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
> >
> > Krasnow, Greg wrote:
> >
> > > I haven't looked at DATETIME stuff, but does Postgres not have something
> > > similar to Oracle's SYSDATE?  In Oracle you can set an Oracle DATE column to
> > > have a default of SYSDATE.  This way Oracle can fill in the column at the
> > > time an insert is done.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, you are right, and I noticed Jose' earlier mail about this on the 'sql'
> > list.
> >
> > If you do:
> >
> > create table x (a timestamp DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, b varchar);
> >
> > It works AND it puts in the current time at INSERT of the new row.  (I noticed
> > if you use CURRENT_TIME instead, you get the time you created the table at, for
> > every row, which is not very useful.)
> >
> > The only problem is that it doesn't change the value on an UPDATE!
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Why not use the system column tmin for this purpose?
>
> hannu=> create table test(i int);
> CREATE
> hannu=> insert into test values(5);
> INSERT 17454 1
> hannu=> select tmin,tmax,i from test;
> tmin                         |tmax   |i
> -----------------------------+-------+-
> Thu Jun 11 11:12:17 1998 EEST|current|5
> (1 row)
>
> hannu=> update test set i=2;
> UPDATE 1
> hannu=> select tmin,tmax,i from test;
> tmin                         |tmax   |i
> -----------------------------+-------+-
> Thu Jun 11 11:13:00 1998 EEST|current|2
> (1 row)
>
> ------
> Hannu
>
One minute! what's that tmin?
What version do you have?
I have v6.3.2 and it doesn't know tmin.

prova=> create table test(i int);
CREATE
prova=> insert into test values(5);
INSERT 15650 1
prova=> select tmin,tmax,i from test;
ERROR:  attribute 'tmin' not found
                                                            Jose'