Re: Determining when a row was inserted

One might even suggest that this should really be a default for all tables
everywhere, because at some time or another, someone wants to know when
something got put in the database...

Alex.

On 6/3/05, Wiebe de Jong <wiebedj(at)shaw(dot)ca> wrote:
>
> The way I do it is to add a timestamp field with a default value of now().
> Unfortunately, this won't help with any records that have already been
> created.
>
> Wiebe
>
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> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Terry Lee Tucker
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:51 AM
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> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Determining when a row was inserted
>
> I don't think there is a way to do that. You'll have to create an audit
> table
> and a rule to update it or you'll have to add a column to the table and a
> trigger to update it.
>
> On Thursday 02 June 2005 01:22 am, Eisenhut, Glenn saith:
> > Folks - hi
> >
> > Is it possible to determine when a row was inserted into a table using
> the
> > system catalogs or such. I have the situation where I need to find out
> when
> > a user was added to a user table - the table was not setup with a date
> to
> > track this.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Glenn
>
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