Thanks Pavlov for your response. > -----Mensaje original----- > De: George Pavlov [mailto:gpav...@mynewplace.com] > <fhe...@ip-tel.com.ar> wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I'm having a hard time trying to find out if the latest > patches have > > been applied to my application (uses lots of pgplsql functions). > > Does Postgres store creation date and/or modification date > for tables, > > functions and other objects? > > It would help me a lot if I could query each object when it was > > created. Is this information available on 8.3? Where should I look? > > 1. not exactly what you were looking for, but i answer this > partially by putting a commented-out CVS expansion tag (e.g. > $Id:) in the body of the function so that it gets into the > catalog and can be searched: > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo () > RETURNS void AS > $BODY$ > -- $Id: foo.sql,v 1.6 2008/12/23 00:06:52 gpavlov Exp $ > BEGIN > ... >
I am already doing this. Sadly I've found it to be very fragile in face of a careless programmer who forgets to update the tags. Myself being the prime suspect. :) > and query it by something like this: > > select > routine_name, > substring(routine_definition from E'%#\042-- #\044Id: % > Exp #\044#\042%' for '#') as cvs_id > from information_schema.routines > ; This query is very helpful. > > 2. you can also make some inference about the relative timing > of object creation based on the OIDs (query > pg_catalog.pg_proc rather than information_schema.routines > for proc OIDs). > I am not sure this would be helpful since different databases are involved (same product on several installations). I think that with the above query I will be able to sort things out. Thank you. Regards, Fernando. -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
