Re: how do i find out when a record was created/modified? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Oliver Elphick
Subject Re: how do i find out when a record was created/modified?
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Msg-id 1037959976.1043.35.camel@linda
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In response to how do i find out when a record was created/modified?  ("Andy Kriger" <akriger@greaterthanone.com>)
Responses Re: how do i find out when a record was created/modified?  (David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:07, Andy Kriger wrote:
> if i have a table full of data, is there metadata stored somewhere by psql
> that can tell me when each record was created/modified? or do i have to
> track this manually with datetime columns that default to now()?

Defaulting to now() will only track inserts, not updates.

There is a contrib module, spi/moddatetime, that will do both.

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