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

From: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, 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 <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Proposal: Store "timestamptz" of database creation on "pg_database"
Date: 2013-01-05 17:59:30
Message-ID: CAFcNs+o3t-1fvBvhKTTUY1Twp==i5YTH2KqLexvWYZKY+8oaTQ@mail.gmail.com
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* Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>
> * Fabrízio de Royes Mello (fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> > * also we discuss about create two new catalogs, one local and another
> > shared (like pg_description and pg_shdescription) to track creation
times
> > of all database objects.
>
> Creating a separate catalog (or two) every time we want to track XYZ for
> all objects is rather overkill... Thinking about this a bit more, and
> noting that pg_description/shdescription more-or-less already exist as a
> framework for tracking 'something' for 'all catalog entries'- why don't
> we just add these columns to those tables..?

But those tables are filled only when we execute COMMENT ON statement...
then your idea is create a 'null' comment every time we create a single
object... is it?

Regards,

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