Re: Database Create Date

From: "Negandhi, Nishith" <Nishith(dot)Negandhi(at)infoUSA(dot)com>
To: "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, "Andy Shellam \(Mailing Lists\)" <andy(dot)shellam-lists(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Database Create Date
Date: 2007-01-10 20:21:38
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Guys..I don't hv access to the server directely.
Is it possible to get the DB creation date from the system catalog.??

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Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:16 PM
To: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
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Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Database Create Date

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 19:39:09 +0000,
"Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy(dot)shellam-lists(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk>
wrote:
> >I thought it was as well to begin with - but in "ls" on Linux there's

> >a separate "atime" and "access" value to the "show time" parameter in

> >"ls" - so if "atime" is the last access time, what's "access" mean?

atime includes at least reads of the file. I don't know if it also
includes writes or stats.

> Hmm ok just done a bit of experimenting on this - "atime" and "access"

> show exactly the same information - "mtime" is an invalid value
> according to my Fedora 5 system. Confused.

mtime is the time you normally see, so there may not be a separate
option for it on ls.

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