Re: Feature request: using CURRENT_DATE as DEFAULT value

[gerald_clark]

Perhaps TIMESTAMP will provide what you need.

Daevid Vincent wrote:

>http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/CREATE_TABLE.html states "Default values must be
>constants. This means, for example, that you cannot set the default for a
>date column to be the value of a function such as NOW() or CURRENT_DATE."
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>Is this ever going to be "fixed"? I often find myself using this when
>creating new records, and it'd be just one less thing to worry about putting
>in the INSERT statement?
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