Re: Versioning control in PostgreSQL?

There is an example and discussion of implementing
history tracking of updates to a table.  It includes
the discussion of the update rule technique as well.

See http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/38.php

elein
elein@varlena.com

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:43:44AM +0000, Alex Page wrote:
> I haven't used PostgreSQL for nearly a year now, and when I was last
> using it there was some discussion on versioning control being
> introduced as a feature. Basically, for some data, I'd like to keep
> track of who changed it, when, and to what. I know I could include
> multiple values in the schema, and have a view to pull out the most
> recent, but I was wondering if there was something more automatic that
> is a feature of PostgreSQL itself. I've looked around the documentation
> with no success. Does anybody know if this is possible?
>
> Alex
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