Re: postgres uptime

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgres uptime
Date: 2004-08-20 08:15:40
Message-ID: 4125B32C.4080406@archonet.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>
>>Does anyone have any 'benefits' to implementing such a thing that we can
>>list? The cons appear to be easy, what about pros?
>
>
> That's exactly what's bugging me --- I have not seen any particularly
> strong defense of why we *should* have this function.
>
> Your suggestion in another mail of restricting it to superusers would
> eliminate most or all of the security gripes I'm raising. Whether that
> still leaves it useful to the original suggestor's purpose, I dunno...

If you had a pressing need, couldn't you just hack the startup script(s)
to insert a timestamp in a suitable table?

Or am I missing something here (as usual)?

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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