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From: Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail@wars-nicht.de>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: table creation/modification datestamp
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 23:25:56 +0200
Message-ID: <20080526232556.6ef551d9@iridium.wars-nicht.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080526203958.GT21327@commandprompt.com>
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On Mon, 26 May 2008 16:39:58 -0400 Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:18:37AM -0700, Kevin Neufeld wrote:
> > As a DBA, it would be extremely useful to know when tables have been 
> > created or modified.  PostgreSQL doesn't keep track of this, does it?
> 
> Nope.  There's a project in pgfoundry, IIRC, to do it with triggers.
> You could also use Slony (or any of its work-similar friends) to do
> something similar.

Maybe you mean:

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/tablelog/

But that covers only data changes. There's no way to track DDL changes.


Kind regards

-- 
				Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group



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