>you could just create an event trigger looking for CREATE TABLE as filter_value:
I have tried that. Unfortunately, I have been unable to extract the table name from the event because TG_TABLE_NAME is not available during an event trigger, albeit perhaps I am missing something?
That being said, I still believe it is extra work that could easily be avoided and should be added to the postgresql catalogs simply to beOn Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wolfgang, as David said, a column in pg_class for the creation time of a table does not exist. I long ago requested that feature as it is
> in other DB's (Oracle & MS SQL Server), but the main reason that it was not done was that no one was interested in doing it.
Is there any need for a column in pg_class for that? You could just
create an event trigger looking for CREATE TABLE as filter_value:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql- createeventtrigger.html
And then have this event trigger just save the timestamp value of
now() in a custom table with the name and/or OID of the relation
involved.
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