Re: Date created for tables

On 12/5/19 1:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Chloe Dives <Chloe.Dives@cantabcapital.com> writes:
>> Having moved to PostgreSQL from Oracle a few years ago I have been generally very impressed by Postgres, but there
area 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.

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