From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to find the view modified date and time and user name
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Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
> What matters is that the DBA can see "ah, Bob altered table foo last
> Thursday at 14:30.  Let's check the log file to see what he did."

I'm not finding that argument terribly convincing.  If you have a
DDL log file, you can grep it to find the last change (and the
ones before that, in case it was Alice's fault not Bob's).  If
you don't have such a log file, how much does a last-changed
timestamp really help you?

			regards, tom lane