Re: [HACKERS] datetime default 'now' broken?

At 9:59 PM -0800 3/15/98, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
>> If I create a table with a datetime field with a default of 'now',
>> every insert the value is the time of table creation instead of the
>> time of insert, which is how it behaved in previous releases (I think
>> this was even documented).
>
>I can't recall it ever working that way, though before we discovered
>that it didn't we all assumed that it _did_ work that way :)
>

I'm running 6.1.1 and I *depend* on 'now' giving me the real now in an
insert.  I guess I'm glad I never upgraded.

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