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Re: Proposal: Store "timestamptz" of database creation on "pg_database"

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: fabriziomello@gmail.com
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-12-28T18:53:05Z
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On 12/28/12 4:05 AM, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> And about proposal that originated this thread... I proposed only to add a
> column on shared catalog "pg_database" with timestamp of its creation.
>
> Event triggers don't cover "CREATE DATABASE" statement.

Works for me, in that case.

You'd need something a lot more mature than checking the file timestamp 
on PG_VERSION, though.


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