Re: Add relcreated (timestamp) column to pg_class catalog to record the time an object was created - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 04/21/2016 07:30 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:

"Just one example of why that assertion does not hold:"

I fail to see your point

"That is easy. Compare dumps of the current schema against the
official schema."

So your solution is to do a dump and then grep for anomalies? How is
that faster than just querying for recently created objects, or objects
created at odd days/hours (weekends/early moring)?

You seem to be spending all of your time finding exemptions rather than
understanding the benefit. So what is your point? That it is not
worthwhile because there are a few cases where it might not work?

The point is that simple is simple, it is dealing with the exceptions/corner cases/etc that things get complex. While an individual user may want only simple, the developers have to think about the user community as a whole and that is where the complexity comes in. Whether that is worthy or not is the point of your request and really depends on more input.

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