From: | "Michael Swierczek" <mike(dot)swierczek(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Mary Anderson" <maryfran(at)demog(dot)berkeley(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Systems view which gives creation date for a table? |
Date: | 2008-11-17 18:11:19 |
Message-ID: | 68b5b5880811171011w749f2d36w55c0022bf827e393@mail.gmail.com |
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Would it make sense to have a permanent table with the names of
temporary tables and their creation dates?
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Mary Anderson
<maryfran(at)demog(dot)berkeley(dot)edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to be able to query some systems table or view to obtain the
> creation data of a table. INFORMATION_SCHEMA does not seem to record this
> information. Does postgres store it somewhere?
>
> I need this for a PHP/postgres application which creates temporary tables
> which should be cleaned up when my application finishes. But sometimes they
> aren't., so I have to write code to find these tables and drop them. There
> is a better solution -- to use CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE. But to do this I
> would have to use PHP persistent data base connections which, unlike the
> ordinary connections which my application currently uses, drop and recreate
> connections when I move from one page to another. Changing means a
> significant code rewrite. I could, of course, encode the creation date into
> the name of the table.
>
> But I would like to know how to find the creation date of a table.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mary Anderson
>
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