Re: Re: Proposal: Store "timestamptz" of database creation on "pg_database"

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)mail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: Proposal: Store "timestamptz" of database creation on "pg_database"
Date: 2013-01-03 22:45:11
Message-ID: 50E609F7.30405@commandprompt.com
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On 01/03/2013 02:30 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> I don't especially have a horse in the race, but ISTM that if you want
>> the information you want it to be able to persist across dump/restore,
>> at least optionally. If you can happily lose it when you're forced to
>> recover using a logical dump then it's not that important to you.
>
> On that point I guess we will just disagree. In my experience, if
> you are OK with a periodic pg_dump for your primary backup
> technique, then the data is just not that important to you.

Or the data doesn't change that much but in principle I agree with you.

JD

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