Re: [HACKERS] How to determine date / time of last postmaster restart - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:38:44AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:22:34PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > PG 8.1 will have a function to return postmaster start time, but not
> > database reset time.  I wonder if this is misdefined --- if you are
> > trying to measure database uptime, the last reset would be more
> > appropriate to track.
>
> Is it too late to add a function that returns last reset time as well?
> That would cover all bases and force some less confusing naming.

This would be one more vote in favour of initdb before next beta.
(pltemplate being the other one.)  We should set a threshold in order to
be able to decide ...

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