The way I do it is to add a timestamp field with a default value of now(). Unfortunately, this won't help with any records that have already been created. Wiebe -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terry Lee Tucker Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:51 AM To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Determining when a row was inserted I don't think there is a way to do that. You'll have to create an audit table and a rule to update it or you'll have to add a column to the table and a trigger to update it. On Thursday 02 June 2005 01:22 am, Eisenhut, Glenn saith: > Folks - hi > > Is it possible to determine when a row was inserted into a table using the > system catalogs or such. I have the situation where I need to find out when > a user was added to a user table - the table was not setup with a date to > track this. > > Thanks > Glenn ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend