| From: | David Goodenough <david(dot)goodenough(at)btconnect(dot)com> |
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| To: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, Andy Kriger <akriger(at)greaterthanone(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Pgsql-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: how do i find out when a record was created/modified? |
| Date: | 2002-11-22 11:27:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20021122112709.7E3B6475AE6@postgresql.org |
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On Friday 22 November 2002 10:12, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:07, Andy Kriger wrote:
> > if i have a table full of data, is there metadata stored somewhere by
> > psql that can tell me when each record was created/modified? or do i have
> > to track this manually with datetime columns that default to now()?
>
> Defaulting to now() will only track inserts, not updates.
>
> There is a contrib module, spi/moddatetime, that will do both.
I just went to the web site, and from there to the FTP master and looked
in the contrib directory, and its empty. Presuming I looked in the wrong
place could you give us a URL please?
David
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