* Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > > Yes, and have the actual 'description' field (as it's variable) at the > end of the catalog. > > Regarding the semantics of it- I was thinking about how directories and > unix files work. Basically, adding or removing a sub-object would > update the alter time on the object itself, changing an already existing > object or sub-object would update only the object/sub-object's alter > time. Creating an object or sub/object would set its create time and > alter time to the same value. I would distinguish 'create' from > 'ctime', however, and have our 'create' time be only the actual > *creation* time of the object. ALTER table OWNER TO user; would update > "table"s alter time. >
Understood... a "COMMENT" is a database object, then if we add a creation time column to pg_description/shdescription tables how we track his creation time? > > Open to other thoughts on this and perhaps we should create a wiki page > to start documentating the semantics. Once we get agreement there, it's > just a bit of code. :) > +1 Regards, -- Fabrízio de Royes Mello Consultoria/Coaching PostgreSQL >> Blog sobre TI: http://fabriziomello.blogspot.com >> Perfil Linkedin: http://br.linkedin.com/in/fabriziomello >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/fabriziomello
