>> On 31/08/2017 09:56, hamann.w@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > is there a way to add a table create (and perhaps schema modify) timestamp to the system? >> > I do occasionally create semi-temporary tables (meant to live until a problem is solved, i.e. longer >> > than a session) with conveniently short names. >> In FreeBSD you'd do smth like this to find the file creation time : >> ls -lU <path to your cluster>/data/PG_9.3_201306121/16425/12344 >> >> where 12344 is the filenode of the relation in question. In ext4 you may do this albeit with more difficulty. >> Hello Achilleas, many thanks for responding. There are two problems; a) accessing the filesystem will likely require some extra effort (e.g. installing an untrusted programming language) b) a dump/restore will modify the dates best regards Wolfgang Hamann -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general