Re: Date created for tables - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 12/23/19 7:01 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

On Thu, Dec  5, 2019 at 05:10:20PM +0000, Chloe Dives wrote:

Having moved to PostgreSQL from Oracle a few years ago I have been generally
very impressed by Postgres, but there are a few things that I still miss. One
of those is being able to see the created and last modified dates for database
objects.


Is this something that has been considered for implementation?

I wrote a blog about this:
https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2017.html#November_21_2017

You all are grossly over-complicating this.

By creation time, "we DBAs" think the time we ran "CREATE object", not when pg_dump, pg_basebackup and pg_update ran.

Likewise, modification time is when we last ran an ALTER command ran, not when VACUUM ran (that's tracked elsewhere) or DML ran.

That's all.

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