Re: [HACKERS] How to determine date / time of last postmaster restart

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:22:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:38:44AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >> Is it too late to add a function that returns last reset time as well?
> >> That would cover all bases and force some less confusing naming.
>
> > This would be one more vote in favour of initdb before next beta.
> > (pltemplate being the other one.) We should set a threshold in order to
> > be able to decide ...
>
> It looks like we'll be initdb'ing to add pltemplate, so if someone wants
> to submit a proposed patch for this ...

I might be able to do some of it; where would I need to capture reload
time?

Also, I'm thinking of leaving pg_postmaster_start_time as-is and adding
pg_postmaster_reload_time. Thoughts?

For reference, here's the original commit:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-06/msg00181.php
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