Re: Adding date column to system catalog "pg_database"

On 07/06/2018 14:05, pavan95 wrote:
> Hi all,
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> Is it possible to add date column to "pg_database" view by altering the
> table?
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> Reason is to get the created date of each database, I will schedule a
> trigger to update the date column with current server time. By this I can
> get the db creation date every now from the point of creation of new db.
>
> Any ideas in accomplishment of this task are of great help!
Write your own function that implements this. Some OS's/filesys give the info on file/directory creation time. (Most modern linuxes don't out of the box). Then write your view (e.g. mypg_database) and
use this.
Do not by any means try to alter any pg_catalog object.

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> Thanks in advance.
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> Regards,
> Pavan
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