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Subject: Re: How to find table creation time
From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
To: reiner peterke <zedaardv@drizzle.com>
Cc: Nik Tek <niktek2005@gmail.com>, "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org"
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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 17:44:57 +0200
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On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 08:26 +0200, reiner peterke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Unfortunately not. This is a feature that is lacking in postgres.
> 
> One could always look at the file node times, but this is unreliable too, as  an operation like a vacuum full will create a new file node.
> I haven't found a good way to work around this either.
> 

I don't think it would be quite difficult to create an extension that
uses a hook to record the timestamp when a user creates a table.
Something like what was done around CREATE EXTENSION to allow adding
some extensions but not all, according to a white list.


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Guillaume
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