Re: new type proposal

> 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.
>
> Both of these could be useful to me and I can implement them by myself
> (except #2 which I'll just have to trust myself not to screw up) but
> general users might find them useful.


Well, SERIAL does auto-sequence create and DEFAULT.   I don't see why we
can't add these features like we did for SERIAL.

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