>You all are *grossly* over-complicating this. Agree +1
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 9:14 PM Ron <ronljohnso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/23/19 7:01 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 05:10:20PM +0000, Chloe Dives wrote: > > 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? > > I wrote a blog about this: > > https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2017.html#November_21_2017 > > > You all are *grossly* over-complicating this. > > By creation time, "we DBAs" think the time we ran "CREATE object", not > when pg_dump, pg_basebackup and pg_update ran. > > Likewise, modification time is when we last ran an ALTER command ran, not > when VACUUM ran (that's tracked elsewhere) or DML ran. > > That's all. > > -- > Angular momentum makes the world go 'round. > -- *Melvin Davidson* *Maj. Database & Exploration Specialist* *Universe Exploration Command – UXC* Employment by invitation only!