Re: how to check the creation date of a postgres database?

Thanks, but I still can't get the database creation date....

% cat PG_VERSION
8.1

16% ls -lt PG*
-rw------- 1 postgres users 4 Jun 22 10:34 PG_VERSION

This date was the date that the Postgres server was upgraded to 8.1 and the timestamp of this file is same under each of all database directories....

"Tomeh, Husam" <htomeh(at)firstam(dot)com> wrote:
I don't believe it's stored in the database. The closer you can get is to check the date/timestamp of PG_VERSION file or possibly any file that may have an earlier date/timestamp, under your database base subdirectory ($PGDATA/base/your_database_oid/). For instance, for a database with OID of 34332 :

ls -lt $PGDATA/base/34332/PG*

-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 4 Aug 24 10:41 PG_VERSION

(Note that the PG_VERSION file in your $PGDATA data directory signifies when the Postgres cluster was created, not a specific database)

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Husam
http://firstdba.googlepages.com


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From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Jessica Richard
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:45 AM
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [ADMIN] how to check the creation date of a postgres database?

\l and \l+ show only the database name, owner and description.
select * from pg_database does not have date info, either.

I would like to know when each of my databases were created.

Thanks,
Jessica

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