Re: Table create time

>you could just create an event trigger looking for CREATE TABLE as
filter_value:

I have tried that. Unfortunately, I have been unable to extract the table
name from the event because TG_TABLE_NAME is not
available during an event trigger, albeit perhaps I am missing something?
That being said, I still believe it is extra work that could easily be
avoided and should be added to the postgresql catalogs simply to be
more feature competitive with Oracle & SQL Server, as well as a boost to
the PostgreSQL community.

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com
> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > Wolfgang, as David said, a column in pg_class for the creation time of a
> table does not exist. I long ago requested that feature as it is
> > in other DB's (Oracle & MS SQL Server), but the main reason that it was
> not done was that no one was interested in doing it.
>
> Is there any need for a column in pg_class for that? You could just
> create an event trigger looking for CREATE TABLE as filter_value:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-createeventtrigger.html
> And then have this event trigger just save the timestamp value of
> now() in a custom table with the name and/or OID of the relation
> involved.
> --
> Michael
>

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