How to insert current datetime in postgresql insert query

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INSERT into Group  Name CreatedDate  VALUES   Test  UTC TIMESTAMP    1     This is the query I have used for mysql to insert current date time  When I am using this in postgresql  I am getting below error       HINT   No function matches the given name and argument types  You might need to add explicit type casts             Error             ERROR  function utc timestamp   does not exist SQL state  42883   I have tried like below using now    however it is inserting like  2016-07-07 17 01 18 410677   I need to insert in  yyyymmdd hh mi ss tt  format   INSERT into Group  Name CreatedDate  VALUES   Test  UTC TIMESTAMP    1     How to insert current date time in insert query of postgresql in above format

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timestamp  or date or time columns  do NOT have  a format     Any formatting you see is applied by the SQL client you are using      To insert the current time use current timestamp as documented in the manual   INSERT into  Group   name createddate   VALUES   Test   current timestamp     To display that value in a different format change the configuration of your SQL client or format the value when SELECTing the data   select name  to char createddate    yyyymmdd hh mi ss tt   as created date from  Group      For psql  the default command line client  you can configure the display format through the configuration parameter DateStyle  https   www postgresql org docs current static runtime-config-client html GUC-DATESTYLE

User · Answer

You can of course format the result of current timestamp    Please have a look at the various formatting functions in the official documentation

User · Answer

For current datetime  you can use now   function in postgresql insert query   You can also refer following link   insert statement in postgres for data type timestamp without time zone NOT NULL

[postgresql] How to insert current datetime in postgresql insert query

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