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Re: Why is there no object create date is the catalogs?

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Melvin Davidson wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why there is no "relcreated" column in pg_class to track
> the creation date of an object?
> 
> It seems to me it would make sense to have one as it would facilitate
> auditing of when objects are created. In addition, it would also facilitate
> the dropping of objects that have exceeded a certain age.

But why -- you can implement that using event triggers.  See the
pg_event_trigger_ddl_commands() function in the docs.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b488c580aef4e05f39be5daaab6464da5b22a494
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/event-trigger-definition.html

... oh, the facility is only two days old, I forgot.

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