Thread: Timestamps on schema objects

People occasionally seem to ask for keeping time stamps on schema objects
(tables, functions, etc.) about when they were created and last altered
(in their structure, not the data in the tables).  I think that this would
be a relatively useful and painless feature.  What do others think?

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net]
> Sent: 07 November 2003 19:35
> To: PostgreSQL Development
> Subject: [HACKERS] Timestamps on schema objects
>
> People occasionally seem to ask for keeping time stamps on
> schema objects (tables, functions, etc.) about when they were
> created and last altered (in their structure, not the data in
> the tables).  I think that this would be a relatively useful
> and painless feature.  What do others think?

Hi Peter,

I don't have a specific need at the moment, but on previous pgAdmin work
could have really used a version number or timestamp.

+1 here.

Regards, Dave

> People occasionally seem to ask for keeping time stamps on schema objects
> (tables, functions, etc.) about when they were created and last altered
> (in their structure, not the data in the tables).  I think that this would
> be a relatively useful and painless feature.  What do others think?

It has actually occurred to me before that that would be a vaguely 
useful feature.

Chris