Re: Versioning control in PostgreSQL?

Alex Page wrote:> I haven't used PostgreSQL for nearly a year now, and when I
was last
> using it there was some discussion on versioning control being
> introduced as a feature. Basically, for some data, I'd like to keep
> track of who changed it, when, and to what. I know I could include
> multiple values in the schema, and have a view to pull out the most
> recent, but I was wondering if there was something more automatic that
> is a feature of PostgreSQL itself. I've looked around the documentation
> with no success. Does anybody know if this is possible?
>

Wouldn't a trigger on update (and insert) that writes to a 'changes' table do
what you want?

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