> There isn't sufficient support for such a "feature". It sounds like a useful feature to me.
> In any case, why > would creation time (as opposed to any other time, eg last schema > modification, last data modification, yadda yadda) be especially > significant? Those would be nice to have too, but last data modification is doubtless too expensive to compute and keep up to date. > Would you expect it to be preserved over dump/restore? Definitely not. Then it wouldn't really be the creation time, would it? > How about every other object type in the system? Good idea. I wouldn't bother for things that are intended to be ephemeral, but having this for, say, functions, would be nice. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers