Re: how to check the creation date of a postgres database? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: how to check the creation date of a postgres database?
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Msg-id 20060922160757.GC28987@nasby.net
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In response to Re: how to check the creation date of a postgres database?  (Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>)
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:04:08AM -0700, Jessica Richard wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> It is for database documentation.

Is it really that important to know when a database was created?

I'm doubtful that anyone in the community will get excited enough to
make a patch based just on that use case; though if you were to create
one it might get accepted.

> Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net> wrote: On Sep 20, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Jessica Richard wrote:
> > \l and  \l+ show only the database name, owner and description.
> > select * from pg_database does not have date info, either.
> >
> > I would like to know when each of my databases were created.
>
> You're not the first person to ask for this, but it's still pretty
> unclear what the use-case for that info is (and without a decent use-
> case, it's pretty unlikely that this info will get stored).
>
> So... why is it you want to know this?
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