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Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> writes:

> How would I specify a field that's to be updated to current_time
> everytime the row is created/altered?

Create a trigger.  There are some good examples in the PL/pgSQL docs.

> Is there some way to put this 'update' property into the table instead
> of running some query to do it?

Triggers are the way to go in Postgres.

-Doug

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