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

On 12/28/2012 03:14 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
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> I agree that what I was suggesting would be possible to implement with 
> event triggers, but I see that as a rather advanced feature that most 
> users aren't going to understand or implement. At the same time, those 
> more novice users are likely to be looking for this kind of 
> information- being told "oh, well, you *could* have been collecting it 
> all along if you knew about event triggers" isn't a particularly 
> satisfying answer. That's my 2c on it. I agree that having the example 
> in the docs would be nice- examples are always good things to include. 
If what you want is something close to current unix file time semantics 
(ctime, mtime, atime) then why not just create a function to look up 
these attributes on database directory and/or database files ?

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Hannu