Updating entry WITHOUT updating timestamp

Question

I have a timestamp in a mysql table with attribute \"ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP\". Is there a way to manually disable updating the timestamp on a special occasion? (eg: upd

Answer 1

Is there a way to manually disable updating the timestamp on a special occasion? (eg: updating the entry to revise a blog post, but not to re-date it)

Sounds like you need to configure the default constraint so that it populates the column on insertion only:

DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

Changing it to only be this means that any revisions will not trigger the timestamp value to be updated. IE: If you created the blogpost yesterday, and corrected a typo today - the date in the column would still be for yesterday.