MySQL DATE field with default CURDATE(). NOT DATETIME

Question

It is possible to set default value on DATE (NOT DATETIME) column in MySQL 5.7 to current date?
I try this (generated by Workbench):

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Answer 1

There is a way you can do this if you have another column that has a for example a datetime field with a default of NOW(). See this post:

Answer 2

No, you cannot. The documentation is pretty clear on this:

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. The exception is that you can specify CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as the default for TIMESTAMP and DATETIME columns. See Section 12.3.5, “Automatic Initialization and Updating for TIMESTAMP and DATETIME”.

You can do one of the following:

• Set up a column with a default value for the DATETIME. Create view that extracts the date as a separate column.
• Create an insert trigger to set the date column.