Question

is there a way to get default values of columns as they are a row of a resultset?

`id` mediumint(9) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`state` tinyint(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT '22',
`pubdate` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '2012-01-01 00:00:00',

for instance a table like this should return this record:

id->NULL (?)
state->22
pubdate->2012-01-01 00:00:00

in practice, when some user opens edit.php?id=44 he will get the row 44 (update mode), but if he opens edit.php?id=0 (insert mode) I want that the fields contain default values as place holders

thank you in advance

Answer 1

There is a DEFAULT function

SELECT DEFAULT( id ) , DEFAULT( EXAMPLE )  FROM test LIMIT 1

With above query, it seems that you need to have atleast one record in the table as it returns no records otherwise. For current timestamp, it return a timestamp formatted string of 0s.