lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > > > This issue always stumps me. I need to set the default date for a column in > postgres. A value for today, today + x days, now (timestamp), now + x amount of > days. test=# select current_date; date ------------ 2006-02-20 (1 row) test=# select current_date + '5 days'::interval; ?column? --------------------- 2006-02-25 00:00:00 (1 row) test=# select now(); now ------------------------------- 2006-02-20 17:56:24.136771+01 (1 row) test=# select now() + '5 days'::interval; ?column? ------------------------------- 2006-02-25 17:56:29.780316+01 (1 row) test=# create table foo (id int, datum date default current_date + '5 days'::interval); CREATE TABLE test=# insert into foo (id) values (1); INSERT 0 1 test=# select * from foo; id | datum ----+------------ 1 | 2006-02-25 HTH, Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknow) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°