Re: column max length / max timestamps from system tables - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Unfortunately this takes hours since the table has > 500million rows

just wanted to see if there was a shorrtcut / alternate

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 10:05 sbob <sbob@quadratum-braccas.com> wrote:

Hi all;


we need to pull the max timestamp for a set of columns and the max
string length for another set of columns. Can I get this from system
tables? If so, how up to date would it be?

No.  Just query the table directly.

David J.