Re: Feature / Enhancement request.

From: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
To: Melvin Davidson <melvin(dot)davidson(at)rackspace(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Feature / Enhancement request.
Date: 2009-08-25 18:12:04
Message-ID: 3073cc9b0908251112s67bcdc67q2cfeefac6171aa0e@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Melvin
Davidson<melvin(dot)davidson(at)rackspace(dot)com> wrote:
>
> This would be very useful for user tables that are meant to exist for only a
> specific length of time. eg: 1  month.
>

that's a weird concept

>
> Likewise, relmoddat would be useful for determining when someone made
> changes to a table, index, view, etc.
>

i agree it could be useful for auditing porpouses... in fact, in
environments like government it's likely the law who wants such a
functionality...

but instead of new fields we can invent a new catalog for that and we
can use a guc to enable/disable the track of such changes

--
Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas
Guayaquil - Ecuador
Cel. +59387171157

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