Re: [GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-10 Thread Andy Dale
Hi Erik, Can you elaborate a bit more on what you mean by pg_class, as looking at it i cannot figure out how to get the last write time from the pg_class table. Cheers, Andy On 08/01/07, Erik Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 03:26, Andy Dale wrote:

Re: [GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-08 Thread Andy Dale
Hi, Sorry for the slight delay in my response. I am using 3 PostgreSQL databases and writing to them using an SQL proxy. These databases have a high write volume. On rebooting all 3 servers for OS/Software updates, i would like to figure out which was the last written to DB (this is assuming

Re: [GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:22:05 +0100, Andy Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slight delay in my response. I am using 3 PostgreSQL databases and writing to them using an SQL proxy. These databases have a high write volume. On rebooting all 3 servers for OS/Software

Re: [GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-08 Thread Andy Dale
Ok. The SQL Proxy i am using (HA-JDBC) has some limitations with regard to getting it's cluster back into sync. If ha-jdbc uses the wrong DB (one that has been out of action for a while) as the starting point for the cluster it will then try and delete stuff from the other DB's on their

Re: [GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 02:22, Andy Dale wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slight delay in my response. I am using 3 PostgreSQL databases and writing to them using an SQL proxy. These databases have a high write volume. On rebooting all 3 servers for OS/Software updates, i would like to figure out

Re: [GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 03:26, Andy Dale wrote: Ok. The SQL Proxy i am using (HA-JDBC) has some limitations with regard to getting it's cluster back into sync. If ha-jdbc uses the wrong DB (one that has been out of action for a while) as the starting point for the cluster it will then try

Re: [GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-08 Thread Erik Jones
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 03:26, Andy Dale wrote: Ok. The SQL Proxy i am using (HA-JDBC) has some limitations with regard to getting it's cluster back into sync. If ha-jdbc uses the wrong DB (one that has been out of action for a while) as the starting point for the

Re: [GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-08 Thread Andy Dale
Hi, I am still not so certain about adding a timestamp column to each table, as within a few months the table will be quite big. My current thinking is to have a trigger per table that overwrties a single value in a single utility table after every write, this will be far quicker to select when

Re: [GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-08 Thread Michael Nolan
On several occasions I have thought that each row in a table should have a SYSTEM COLUMN which gave the timestamp of the last update of that row. This could get a bit expensive on space and in some cases might be redundant with (or have a slightly different value from) a user-maintained

[GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-04 Thread Andy Dale
Hi, I need to be able to determine the last time (and date) that a database was written to. I know it could be possible just to check the last modified dates in the PGDATA directory, but i need to compare the last write time of 3 databases (connecting via JDBC). Hopefully the last write date

Re: [GENERAL] Discovering time of last database write

2007-01-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:11, Andy Dale wrote: Hi, I need to be able to determine the last time (and date) that a database was written to. I know it could be possible just to check the last modified dates in the PGDATA directory, but i need to compare the last write time of 3 databases