--- Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:
> On 09/08/2007 23:40, son@raider.co.nz wrote:
>
> > My database is restored from a dump file every day. How I know that this
> > database is up to date (as it has no timestamp in any table).
> >
> > If I create a file, I can know when I created it by seeing its property.
> > How I can do the same thing with a back up database.
>
> Actually, it *would* be really handy if pg_dump included a timestamp in
> the plain-text output. The version I use regularly (Windows)
> doesn't...it simply says "PostgreSQL database dump" which is only
> helpful to a point. :-)
If you need to, you can append your own timestamp to the dump file if you need it.
I rolled this functionality into a .bat file.
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
