Re: How to know a table has been modified? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: How to know a table has been modified?
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Msg-id 20120228.010522.2159741058369497846.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Re: How to know a table has been modified?  (Lennin Caro <lennin.caro@yahoo.com>)
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Are you suggesting log_statement? I don't think it's a solution by
following reasons:

1) it's slow to enable that on busy systems
2) tables affected by cascading delete/update/drop is not logged in  PostgreSQL log
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Tatsuo Ishii
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> check the log of postgresql, there you can take the table name and the date of the modification
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> --- On Mon, 2/27/12, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
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> From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] How to know a table has been modified?
> To: Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Date: Monday, February 27, 2012, 12:04 PM
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>>> For TRIGGER, I cannot thinking of any way. Any idea will be
>>> welcome.
>> 
>> It would require creating "cooperating" triggers in the database and
>> having a listener, but you might consider the
>> triggered_change_notifications() trigger function included in 9.2.
>> It works at least as far back as 9.0; I haven't tried it any further
>> back.
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> Thanks for the info. It's a little bit overkill for my purpose though.
> (on busy systems, the notification would be too frequent).
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> I would think that creating a small routine periodically consults
> pg_stat_all_tables view and records the last update datetime for each
> table (unfortunately the view does not have last modification date).
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