Re: relation create time

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Hu, Patricia" <Patricia(dot)Hu(at)finra(dot)org>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: relation create time
Date: 2017-05-10 16:31:50
Message-ID: 804200a3-3722-ec73-60b1-3c1bfd0b3422@2ndquadrant.com
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On 5/10/17 12:05, Hu, Patricia wrote:
> I am trying to find out when a table was created in postgresql. Thought
> it would be easy (coming from Oracle world), but haven’t had any luck,
> especially since we are on RDS and can’t peek at the timestamp on the
> file system. Is this information stored anywhere in the catalog?

It is not.

> Or I
> need to store it myself? Is there any plan to add such meta data
> information to the catalog as a feature? Thanks a lot!

You could write an event trigger to record it.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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