Re: Adding modified and creation datetime to system catalogs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Adding modified and creation datetime to system catalogs
Date: 2009-10-02 13:39:14
Message-ID: 17172.1254490754@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I was looking around for ways to find out the creation date of a database or
> a table, but there doesn't appear to be any functions or available metadata
> to provide this information. Unless there's a way I haven't seen yet, does
> anyone see any problem with adding a creationdatetime and modifieddatetime
> column to catalogs such as pg_database and pg_tables (but also maybe
> pg_views, pg_language, pg_type etc)?

This has been proposed before, and rejected before, many times. Please
see the archives.

regards, tom lane

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