Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > What matters is that the DBA can see "ah, Bob altered table foo last > Thursday at 14:30. Let's check the log file to see what he did." I'm not finding that argument terribly convincing. If you have a DDL log file, you can grep it to find the last change (and the ones before that, in case it was Alice's fault not Bob's). If you don't have such a log file, how much does a last-changed timestamp really help you? regards, tom lane