Thread: Date/time of last commit

Is there a way to get the date/time of the last commit on a database?

Tom

Tom Spencer wrote:
> Is there a way to get the date/time of the last commit on a database?

Not unless you're logging them or have triggers on all the tables you
want to monitor.

What problem are you trying to solve?

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

Tom Spencer wrote:
> I need to compare the age of some data files against the "age" (i.e.
> time of last commit) of the database.  If the data files are newer
> then the database needs to be rebuilt.
>
> I can kludge together a solution but by far the cleanest solution
> would be to just ask "what time was the last commit?"

Only so long as nothing else updates a table. Which would mean not
running autovacuum etc.

Simplest solution would be to have an "import_events" table and just add
a row to that every time you import.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd