Re: Row creation time

Actually i have an old table without any timestamp column. I want to know
the creation time of one Row: One way is to look in the postgres dump files
(which could take some time) in order to see the date the Row was inserted.
I was hoping there is another way ....

Thx anyways.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Glaesemann" <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
To: "Najib Abi Fadel" <nabifadel(at)usj(dot)edu(dot)lb>
Cc: "generalpost" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Row creation time

>
> On Nov 24, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Najib Abi Fadel wrote:
>
> > Is there a to get the row creation time if we know it's object ID ??
>
> Only if you have a timestamp column on the table that records the
> creation time. For example,
>
> create table foo (
> foo_id serial not null unique
> , created_timestamp timestamptz not null
> default current_timestamp
> ) without oids;
>
> Some people also like to include a modified_timestamp column, which can
> easily be updated via an after update trigger.
>
> hth
>
> Michael Glaesemann
> grzm myrealbox com
>