On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:20:00PM +0300, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: > Hi, > > AFAICS, PostgreSQL is not keeping info about when a table, database, > sequence, etc was created. We cannot get that info even from OS, > since CLUSTER or VACUUM FULL may change the metadata of > corresponding relfilenode.
When people aren't keeping track of their DDL, that is very strictly a process problem on their end. When people are shooting themselves in the foot, it's a great disservice to market Kevlar shoes to them. > Does anyone think that adding a timestamp column to pg_class would > bring an overhead? For me, it looks a bit easy to add that value > while calling CREATE XXX, but does anyone see a corner case? As above, I am making a case for never attempting any such a thing, and instead helping people understand that a casual attitude about their DDL will result in cascading--usually catastrophic--failures. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers