Re: Date created for tables
Ron <[email protected]>
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On 12/5/19 1:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Chloe Dives <[email protected]> writes: >> Having moved to PostgreSQL from Oracle a few years ago I have been generally very impressed by Postgres, but there are a few things that I still miss. One of those is being able to see the created and last modified dates for database objects. >> Is this something that has been considered for implementation? > It's been considered, and rejected, many times. Aside from the overhead > involved, there are too many different ideas of what such dates ought to > mean (e.g., what should happen during dump/restore? does a failed > transaction update last-modified? etc etc). You can search the > project's mailing list archives if you want to read the prior discussions. All the other RDBMSs seem to have figured it out. -- Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.