Re: Keeping creation time of objects

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:20:00PM +0300, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> AFAICS, PostgreSQL is not keeping info about when a table, database,
> sequence, etc was created. We cannot get that info even from OS,
> since CLUSTER or VACUUM FULL may change the metadata of
> corresponding relfilenode.

When people aren't keeping track of their DDL, that is very strictly a
process problem on their end. When people are shooting themselves in
the foot, it's a great disservice to market Kevlar shoes to them.

> Does anyone think that adding a timestamp column to pg_class would
> bring an overhead? For me, it looks a bit easy to add that value
> while calling CREATE XXX, but does anyone see a corner case?

As above, I am making a case for never attempting any such a thing,
and instead helping people understand that a casual attitude about
their DDL will result in cascading--usually catastrophic--failures.

Cheers,
David.
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