Re: Date created for tables

On 12/23/19 7:01 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 05:10:20PM +0000, Chloe Dives wrote:
>> Having moved to PostgreSQL from Oracle a few years ago I have been generally
>> very impressed by Postgres, but there are a few things that I still miss. One
>> of those is being able to see the created and last modified dates for database
>> objects.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is this something that has been considered for implementation?
> I wrote a blog about this:
>
> https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2017.html#November_21_2017

You all are *grossly* over-complicating this.

By creation time, "we DBAs" think the time we ran "CREATE object", not when
pg_dump, pg_basebackup and pg_update ran.

Likewise, modification time is when we last ran an ALTER command ran, not
when VACUUM ran (that's tracked elsewhere) or DML ran.

That's all.

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