Re: I was spoiled by the MySQL timestamp field

What's the difference between 'now()' and 'current_timestamp' ?

will trillich wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:57:04AM +1300, Luke Pascoe wrote:
> > Why not just use a DEFAULT NOW()?
> > ie:
> >     CREATE TABLE blah (
> >         time    TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
> >         );
> >
> > I know it works for DATETIME types, don't know about TIMESTAMP
> > but I assume it would be the same.
>
> great for INSERT, but rather inert on UPDATE.
>
> create table _gribnif (
>         created  timestamp default current_timestamp,
>         modified timestamp,
>         other    text,
> );
>
> create view gribnif ...
>
> create rule gribnif_edit as
> on update to gribnif
> do instead (
>         update _gribnif set
>                 MODIFIED = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
>                 other    = NEW.other
>         where
>                 id = NEW.id
>         ;
> );
>
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