| From: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | Andy Kriger <akriger(at)greaterthanone(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Pgsql-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: how do i find out when a record was created/modified? |
| Date: | 2002-11-22 10:12:56 |
| Message-ID: | 1037959976.1043.35.camel@linda |
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On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:07, Andy Kriger wrote:
> if i have a table full of data, is there metadata stored somewhere by psql
> that can tell me when each record was created/modified? or do i have to
> track this manually with datetime columns that default to now()?
Defaulting to now() will only track inserts, not updates.
There is a contrib module, spi/moddatetime, that will do both.
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