Question

My sql query looks like this

ALTER TABLE `exercises`
ADD COLUMN `creation_dt`  timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AFTER `lesson_id`,
ADD COLUMN `modification_dt`  timestamp NULL DEFAULT '' ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AFTER `creation_dt`;

But getting error message

How can I fix this problem?

Answer 1

As shown in the screenshot, this is error code 1293. The reason for this error seems to be some implementation details in MySQL.

You could get around it by using a column of type DATETIME but this does not allow setting the current time as default value. However, you can solve this in your application code or by using a trigger. I used a sample table (called datetimetest) and added the trigger like this:

Database schema:

CREATE TABLE `datetimetest` (
    `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
    `created` datetime NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

CREATE TRIGGER trigger_SetCreated
  BEFORE INSERT ON datetimetest
  FOR EACH ROW SET NEW.created = UTC_TIMESTAMP();

You can do the same for the modified field using a trigger BEFORE UPDATE or keep your solution as you now only have one TIMESTAMP column that gets set to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE.