Re: how to check the creation date of a postgres database?

From: Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Jessica Richard <rjessil(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to check the creation date of a postgres database?
Date: 2006-09-22 02:52:40
Message-ID: 82178199-AF56-40A5-AC20-74DF30213622@nasby.net
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On Sep 20, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Jessica Richard wrote:
> \l and \l+ show only the database name, owner and description.
> select * from pg_database does not have date info, either.
>
> I would like to know when each of my databases were created.

You're not the first person to ask for this, but it's still pretty
unclear what the use-case for that info is (and without a decent use-
case, it's pretty unlikely that this info will get stored).

So... why is it you want to know this?
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Jim Nasby jimn(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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Jim Nasby jimn(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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