Re: how to check the creation date of a postgres database?

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:30:55AM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:17, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:30:55AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net> writes:
> > > > On Sep 20, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Jessica Richard wrote:
> > > >> I would like to know when each of my databases were created.
> > >
> > > > You're not the first person to ask for this, but it's still pretty
> > > > unclear what the use-case for that info is (and without a decent use-
> > > > case, it's pretty unlikely that this info will get stored).
> > >
> > > If we did store it, it would presumably reflect the time of issuance of
> > > CREATE DATABASE, which would mean it wouldn't survive a dump and reload
> > > anyway (as the OP seems to be wishing for).
> >
> > Well, that case could be handled as well, it's just a SMOC. But as I
> > mentioned, it's unlikely an existing developer will get excited about
> > any of this.
>
> How about a default database comment on creation if the user doesn't set
> one, of "database created 2006-09-21 12:34:56"

If we had catalog triggers, one could do that automagically...
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