Re: Proposal: Store "timestamptz" of database creation on "pg_database"

2013/1/3 Hannu Krosing <hannu@krosing.net>:
> On 12/28/2012 03:14 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
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>> I agree that what I was suggesting would be possible to implement with
>> event triggers, but I see that as a rather advanced feature that most users
>> aren't going to understand or implement. At the same time, those more novice
>> users are likely to be looking for this kind of information- being told "oh,
>> well, you *could* have been collecting it all along if you knew about event
>> triggers" isn't a particularly satisfying answer. That's my 2c on it. I
>> agree that having the example in the docs would be nice- examples are always
>> good things to include.
>
> If what you want is something close to current unix file time semantics
> (ctime, mtime, atime) then why not just create a function to look up these
> attributes on database directory and/or database files ?

Implementation of ctime, mtime, atime will have little bit higher
impact than just creation time - and these values should be moved to
statistics instead bloated pg_class.

You cannot use a filesystem data, because some requests are solved by
cache not by filesystem.

I had to emulate MySQL fields - and this was a first implementation,
but totally useles - now we have a solution based on enhancing pg_stat
and it works as expected

Regards

Pavel


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