Re: timestamp of a row - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Marco Bomben
Subject Re: timestamp of a row
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Msg-id AANLkTinrm5jqmfO6EODhp3IKL3bW6ntiUXhdO0ISrSYq@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: timestamp of a row  (Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>)
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Dear Thom,
                     thanks for the suggestion. I will look for 'trigger' into documentation.

Regards,
               Marco


On 24 May 2010 13:09, Marco Bomben <marco.bomben@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>              I look into mails-archive but I didn't find any hint for this
> question: is there a way to retrieve the timestamp of the creation/last
> modification of a row in a table?
>
> Many thanks and regards,
>                                        Marco Bomben
>

I don't believe there is.  I wanted to do something similar, but the
only way I found of doing it was to create a trigger on the table
which updates a timestamp column on the row being updated.

Regards

Thom



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