Re: I was spoiled by the MySQL timestamp field

postgreSQL actually has a better implementation of timestamps.... In
mySQL -- You can have only 1 timestamp field...

In postgreSQL -- you can have as many  "create_dt" timestamp default 'now()'
fields as you want and on an insert -- they ALL get stamped whereas in
mySQL --ONLY 1 COLUMN gets updated....



""Alan T. Miller"" <amiller@hollywood101.com> wrote in message
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> As someone who is just getting started with PostygreSQL from years working
> with MySQL, it appears that the timestamp data type does not behave in the
> way it did with MySQL. I got used to just defining a column as a timestamp
> and letting the database throw the latest time stamp in there whenever a
row
> was updated. Is there anything simular in PosgreSQL? How can I accomplish
> something simular inside the database, or am I stuck populating the field
in
> some manner as in the following example
>
> update blah blah blah timestamp = NOW()
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>
>
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