From: | Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Adding modified and creation datetime to system catalogs |
Date: | 2009-10-02 13:30:54 |
Message-ID: | bddc86150910020630y71d6937at1402564790305cd8@mail.gmail.com |
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I was looking around for ways to find out the creation date of a database or
a table, but there doesn't appear to be any functions or available metadata
to provide this information. Unless there's a way I haven't seen yet, does
anyone see any problem with adding a creationdatetime and modifieddatetime
column to catalogs such as pg_database and pg_tables (but also maybe
pg_views, pg_language, pg_type etc)? Or should this be stored separately
with oids indices with associated datetiimes? I imagine it would be useful,
and I've seen this on other RDBMS' (except for modified date and time).
An example of where I was intending to use this a short while ago was to get
a list of tables and sort them by date created to review the oldest tables
for relevance.
Hopefully my suggestion is completely unnecessary and there will already be
a way to identify these pieces of information.
Thanks
Thom
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