Re: Automatic date/time

Hello,
To follow up on that, how to make sure the timestamp is always stored and
displayed at, for instance, time zone 'zulu'
Something like
create table ...
{
   datetime timestamptz default 'now() at time zone \'zulu\''
}
does not work; PostgreSQL complains about the syntax. Any idea.
Many thanks
JCR

"Sean Davis" <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> wrote in message
news:C03AC283.7E86%sdavis2@mail.nih.gov...
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> On 3/13/06 6:19 AM, "Joao Miguel Ferreira" <jmf@estg.ipvc.pt> wrote:
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>> Hello all,
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>> is it possible to have Pg automatically insert a Date or Time value on a
>> record if the INSERT comand does not include one ?
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>> Something similar to AUTO INCREMENT for INTs ?!?!
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>> This way the program that does the INSERT wouldn't have to worry about
>> the correct Date/Time value nor format....
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> Look at setting defaults and set the default to something like 'now()'.
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> Create table .... (
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>    mydate date default 'now()',
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> );
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> Sean
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